Character Quote by Bernice King

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

— Mike Farrell

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

— Van Jones

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…

— Vandana Shiva

Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with…

— Majora Carter

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

— Majora Carter

“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At the same…

— Dalai Lama XIV

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many…

— Pope John Paul II

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

— Will Durant

“[The idea] of an environmental ethic runs contrary to our cultural tradition.”

— John Livingston. from "One Cosmic Moment

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of…

— Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

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