Poor people Quote by Edward Glaeser

“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid…

— Garret Keizer

“Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to…

— Martin Luther

“Cities require connectivity rather than territory in order to drive their economic stability and growth.”

— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“You have built cities, no doubt, and filled them full of improvement, if magnificence be improvement; and of poverty also, if poverty be improvement.…

— Robert Bage

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

— Josiah Strong

“But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out…

— John Updike

“Unfortunately, there is no rule saying a city must be a nice place to live in order to attract fast population and economic growth.…

— Laurence C. Smith

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The city as the engine for social change and increasing well-being is one of the truly great triumphs of our amazing ability to form…

— Geoffrey West

Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

— Jan Gehl

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you…

— Matt Haig