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Redlining steals health and wealth. It was bad for America in the 1920s, and its continuing effects are harmful in the 2020s today.

— Robert D. Bullard

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America is segregated, and so is pollution.

There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that’s living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

No community, rich or poor, urban or suburban, black or white, should be made into a sacrifice zone or dumping ground.

The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)

Students and young people have fueled every social movement in the United States, including the civil rights, environmental, antiwar, women's movements.

The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)

Waiting for government to act is recipe for disaster.

The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)

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