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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time. — Christopher Bollen
There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. — Gwen Ifill
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or… — Jimmy Carter
If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. — Thomas Friedman
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve. — Jennifer Granholm
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my… — Gail Collins
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the… — Macaulay Culkin
Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. — Wiz Khalifa
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available. — Jonathan Kozol
The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower… — Jonathan Kozol
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well. — Gavin Newsom
I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps. — Camille Paglia
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods. — Ann Richards
The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in… — Rick Santorum
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob.… — Dan Savage
I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I… — Martin Scorsese
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally… — Will Smith
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work… — Sonia Sotomayor
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle,… — Alex Steffen
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do… — J. Michael Straczynski
When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are… — Clarence Thomas
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and… — Wendell Berry
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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