Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self… — Bunker Roy Copy Share Image
“I knocked on the gates of heaven and saint peter said,"we are not ready for you, Mother Teresa.You are needed in the… — Maryanne Raphael Copy Share Image
An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a… — Bonnie Bedelia Copy Share Image
I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I've always… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think… — Oscar Hammerstein II Copy Share Image
Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image