Quotes About Environmental Justice

#1. Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Majora Carter

#2. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.

David Jaber

#3. Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Bernie Sanders

#4. Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

Majora Carter

#5. We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

Barbara Boxer

#6. Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Van Jones

#7. The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable ... We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.

James Cromwell

#8. If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

Amit Goswami

#9. The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.

Tahir Shah

#10. A life without rain is like the sun without shade.

Karen White

#11. No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits ... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.

Christine Stewart

#12. Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

Benny Blanco

#13. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.

Auliq Ice

#14. As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

#15. Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.

Vandana Shiva

#16. If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

Thales

#17. So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Godfrey Reggio

#18. Justice needs money; it always has ... whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

Ralph Nader

#19. But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes' passion worth that?" "It is, it is. Believe me.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#20. When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.

Vandana Shiva

#21. The bane of Terri's life could use a prescription of Prozac.' (Terri)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. Talking to morons like that is like pissing in a urinal full of cigarette butts, like shitting in a toilet full of Tampax: nothing gets flushed, and everything starts to stink.

Michel Houellebecq

#23. Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Ban Ki-moon

#24. I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

Frances Beinecke

#25. I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of poetry - an impulse toward compassion, empathy, and social justice.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#26. I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability ...

Stephane Dion

#27. Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?'
Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit

#28. God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

Oswald Chambers