Activism Quote by Jacqueline Novogratz

“These people were building homes for the rich, but they lived in tents covered with blue tarpaulin sheets, and partitioned into lanes by lines…

— Aravind Adiga

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in ever more…

— William Kittredge

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

— Oliver Evans

“Our difficulty is no longer how to contain people densely in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of disease, bad sanitation and child labor.…

— Jane Jacobs

“Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant…

— Milan Kundera

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

Like public surface in general, sewers are unbelievably important. They're so important that we make sure they work basically all of the time. Which…

— Pete Buttigieg

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules…

— Paul Romer

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.

— Ludwig von Mises

I have stayed in homes that didn't have basic infrastructure such as proper washrooms.

— Roopa Ganguly

One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian…

— Katherine Boo