African american Quote by Jimmy Gomez

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

— Bjarke Ingels

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

There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for…

— Wiz Khalifa

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses…

— Majora Carter

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue… Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from…

— Robert D Bullard

Communities of color, like the South Bronx, have long been exposed to elevated levels of air pollution that gravely impact all aspects of our…

— Ritchie Torres

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt…

— Ryan Tedder

“For many Americans—probably most Americans—race remains an unspoken consideration in decisions about where to live, what schools to attend, what clubs to join, whom…

— Jared Taylor