Cities Quote by Peter Maurer Download Open image “Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.” — Peter Maurer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Crime Poverty Unemployment Youth
Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
It's no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities.… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
In my view, nothing would do more to reduce violence in American cities than genuine full employment - a job at a decent wage… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time, — Victor Cruz Copy Share Image
Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence. — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities,… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The violence in the schools of today will inevitably graduate to the streets, offices, cities, and borders of tomorrow. — Shervin Pishevar Copy Share Image
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
There is a clear business case for building the resilience and capacity of local communities, businesses, and institutions because a peaceful, educated, and productive… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Trust into leadership evaporates with communities when they see that their problems are not adequately addressed, neither at the national level nor at the… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Concrete steps are needed to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in military plans, doctrines, and policies. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
We believe that settlement expansion policies pursued in recent decades by successive Israeli governments have facilitated the process of de-facto annexation. It has complicated… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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