A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not… — Larry Norman Copy Share Image
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K.… — Dev Patel Copy Share Image
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services.… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas… — Eduardo Paes Copy Share Image
You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was… — Shukla Bose Copy Share Image
“He never even felt how countless petty circumstances were fusing together to create an imperceptible but powerful stream that would carry him… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the… — Stokely Carmichael 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
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums… — Jane Jacobs 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
“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
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of… — Girija Vyas Copy Share Image
We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I had to do a lot of preparation for 'Kaaka Muttai.' I had to literally spend every night and morning in the… — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
No one lives in the slums because they want to. It's like this train. It can only go where the tracks take… — Final Fantasy 7 Cloud Copy Share Image
London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.” quote by Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/de1/malcolm-x-213_black_it-s-easy-black-man-is-he-s-separate-alr_1550568.jpg)
![“We put [young children] into kindergarten where their reasoning powers are ruined; or, if we can afford it, we buy Montessori outfits that were invented for semi-imbeciles in Italian slums; or we send them to outdoor schools and give them prizes for sleeping.” quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6d2/katharine-fullerton-gerould-13_children_we-put-young-children-into-kindergarten_670781.jpg)
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