Break Quote by Rashida Tlaib

You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

— Dan Gilbert

So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and poor public…

— David Maraniss

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker…

— Robert Reich

Detroit is a fascinating place, because things are so bad there that the dystopia has almost become utopian. People know they can't rely on…

— Sasha Abramsky

I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the…

— Michael Imperioli

Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking.…

— Darren Walker

One of the things that's very important, when you're an activist and an organizer like me, is to understand that when things happen of…

— Grace Lee Boggs

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries"…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Detroit's financial challenges - the decline of the American auto industry, the impact of the global economic recession, declining population, and an erosion of…

— Ron Dellums

“Detroit is a city that works hard, gets tired, gets dirty, gets defeated, and picks itself up every day and keeps going with a…

— Aaron Foley

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

— Grace Lee Boggs