Activist Quote by Mary Robinson

Environmental problems are really social problems anyway. They begin with people as the cause and end with people as the victims

— Edmund Hillary

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

The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework…

— Mary Robinson

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or…

— Mary Travers

The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's…

— Edward Norton

Environmental activism against the resource industry is widespread all over the world, but at the same time we have to realise that these are…

— Anil Agarwal

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what…

— Keanu Reeves

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new…

— Helene D. Gayle

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human…

— E. O. Wilson

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

— Desmond Tutu

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

— Mike Farrell

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

— Ramez Naam