Best Inner City Quotes

64 Inner City quotes by 54 unique authors

• In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live… — Fred Thompson
• My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff
• I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated. — Jack Canfield
• My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to… — Diane Abbott
• Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics… — Arne Duncan
• I've also been working with the Challengers Club in the inner city of Los Angeles for 15 years now, I guess, and it's essentially an… — Richard Dean Anderson
• Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and The Cosby show.… — Tayari Jones
• Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. — Bill Gates
• In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. — Bill Gates
• We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in… — Henry Louis Gates
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. — Henry Louis Gates
• I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you… — LeBron James
• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of… — Jonathan Kozol
• My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and… — Mike Krzyzewski
• I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in… — Dwyane Wade
• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an… — Allen West
• Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now… — will.i.am
• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city… — Geoffrey Canada
• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there.… — Oprah Winfrey
• The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
• There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old "accountable" for her performance on a high-stakes standardized… — Jonathan Kozol
• So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such… — Stephen Colbert
• This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. — Karl Pilkington
• Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared… — Jim Wallis

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Who Wrote These Inner City Quotes

54 authors contributed a total of 64 Inner City Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Inner City Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
• 2 Inner City Quotes by Michael Porter
• 2 Inner City Quotes by LeBron James
• 2 Inner City Quotes by Henry Louis Gates
• 2 Inner City Quotes by Bill Gates
• 2 Inner City Quotes by Barack Obama
• 2 Inner City Quotes by Allen West
• 1 Inner City Quote by Wilma Rudolph
• 1 Inner City Quote by William Julius Wilson
• 1 Inner City Quote by will.i.am
• 1 Inner City Quote by Tracy Morgan
• 1 Inner City Quote by Tom Hayden
• 1 Inner City Quote by Thomas Sowell
• 1 Inner City Quote by Tayari Jones
• 1 Inner City Quote by Stephen Colbert
• 1 Inner City Quote by Stefon Harris
• 1 Inner City Quote by Sebastian Thrun
• 1 Inner City Quote by Scott Stossel
• 1 Inner City Quote by Richard Dean Anderson
• 1 Inner City Quote by Oprah Winfrey
• 1 Inner City Quote by Mike Krzyzewski
• 1 Inner City Quote by Michelle Alexander
• 1 Inner City Quote by Melissa Rosenberg
• 1 Inner City Quote by Maxine Waters
• 1 Inner City Quote by Mary J. Blige