“ Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 713
“ A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations. ”
- Charles Abrams- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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… ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also… ”
- Whitney Young- Copy
- 363
“ The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors… ”
- Peter S. Jennison- Copy
- 2.7K
“ But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums… ”
- Jane Jacobs- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 2K
“ Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced… ”
- Archibald MacLeish- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting. ”
- Alan Brien- Copy
- 1.8K
- 1