Absence Quote by Stanley A. McChrystal

All Western cities face significant challenges on social integration. Our populations are booming, but social integration is not keeping pace. Rapid growth is a…

— Sadiq Khan

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people…

— Steve Inskeep

If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of…

— Sharan Burrow

Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find…

— Mohsin Hamid

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

“Efforts to establish local cohesion and community investment are thwarted in neighborhoods with high turnover rates. In this way, eviction can unravel the fabric…

— Matthew Desmond

Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the…

— Paul Ormerod

Cities are drivers of growth and wealth, and at the same time, cities are becoming increasingly violent.

— Peter Maurer

Violence recoils on the violent.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.

— Patrisse Cullors

If we want to build communities that are safe, we have to address the root causes of violence.

— Cori Bush

“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence…

— James Dale Davidson