Slums Quotes

106 quotes by 97 authors

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,… — Whitney M. Young
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon… — Helen Keller
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it… — Hector Hugh Munro
If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums,… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and… — Philip Larkin
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has… — Noam Chomsky
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what… — Hal Higdon
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American… — Frank N. Ikard
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the… — Evelyn Waugh
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on… — Della Reese
With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent… — Eric Sevareid
I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ I wanted to make the chair all one thing again. — Eero Saarinen
It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums — Tim Yeo
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationâ€™s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know… — Douglas Adams

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