Class Quote by Alex Padilla

Children in working-class communities - like the one I grew up in - face higher rates of asthma and respiratory issues, which have a…

— Alex Padilla

The fact that communities that are relatively powerless often are exposed to more dangerous pollution and the worst effects of climate change: a society…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

There's no doubt that corporations have been getting away with dumping their pollution into our environment for decades and that they're especially emboldened to…

— Rashida Tlaib

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a landfill or…

— David Cay Johnston

In this post-industrial society, when we're moving away from what was the norm, we have to deal with what it has left in its…

— Johann Johannsson

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

— Bernie Sanders

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

— Li Keqiang

“concepts of pollution and purity have played a leading role in enforcing social and political divisions and have been exploited by numerous ruling classes…

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and…

— Alex Steffen

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous…

— Alan Dundes

I am talking about ordinary people making the link between their communities being treated as disposable and the assumption that the environments they depend…

— Rob Nixon