Slums Quotes

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When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have… — Mohamed ElBaradei
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. — Imelda Marcos
If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. — Spiro T. Agnew
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and… — Edward Abbey
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. — Rebecca Harding Davis
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex… — C.S. Lewis
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is… — Marq de Villiers
I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've… — Spiro T. Agnew
The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums… — Mother Teresa
The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the… — P.J. O'Rourke
A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So… — Peter L. Berger
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in… — James Connolly
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships… — L. Ron Hubbard
I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area… — T.E. Lawrence
The PSTN is like a well-manicured neighborhood, (while) the internet is like a crime-ridden slum, — Phil Zimmermann
When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and… — Jacqueline Novogratz
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life… — Lewis Hyde
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
Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can… — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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