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history of human slavery spawned environmental racism in the United States.

— Beverly Wright

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The Harvard study comes out and I’m like, ‘OK, now I understand.' Black people are dying because of where we live.

Article in Vice (2020)

After Katrina, trying to get back to the city was awful for Black people and we still haven’t fully recovered.

Article in Vice (2020)

People of my age group are so angry, Why are we in the same place? We’ve actually lost some of the progress.

Article in Vice (2020)

I don’t think we should talk about reducing greenhouse gases and saving the planet without environmental justice being shoulder to shoulder with that.

Interview (2022)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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