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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…
— Whitney M. Young
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I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society…
— Helen Keller
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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
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The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread…
— Hector Hugh Munro
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If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the…
— Philip Larkin
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Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.
— Eduardo Paes
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