Slums Quotes - Page 2

• You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

  Della Reese

  Ghetto, Kind, Born

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• As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Doctors, Matter

  "Another Door Opens". Book by Jeffrey A. Wands. p. 29, 2006.

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• Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Yards, Three, Way

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Children, War, Kids

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Country, Home

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• As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Real, Angel, Home

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Home, Ambition, People

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• War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Angel, May

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.15, Vanderbilt University Press

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• Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Home, Fighting, Government

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• Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Philosophy, Blow

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• Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, White Man, Years

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, Talking

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• I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.

  Katherine Boo

  Husband, Crazy, Years

  "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

  Mother Teresa

  Giving Up, Order, Christ

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• We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

  Jose Padilha

  Criminals, Wonder, Cop

  "Jose Padilha Says ‘Elite Squad’ Sequel Is His Scorsese-Like Take On Cops & Politics In Brazil". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ghetto, Cities, Political

  In Detroit Free Press 19 Oct. 1968

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• Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

  Graham Greene

  Prayer, Men, Class

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Stars, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

  Otto Schily

  Mistake, Opportunity, Affluence

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• First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

  Frank McCourt

  Book, Responsibility, Creating

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• Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

  Albert C. Barnes

  Depressing, Philadelphia, Intellectual

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• I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

  Franklin Graham

  World, Streets

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• I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums

  Vinnie Paz

  Choices, Void, Born

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• Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.

  Deborah Smith

  Stars, Awards, Focus

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  Larry Norman

  Jesus, Floating, Spirit

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