Quotes for All
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing … Read more
Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity. Albion Fellows Bacon
One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum. Albion Fellows … Read more
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it. Albion Fellows Bacon
Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum Albert C. Barnes
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. Rebecca Harding Davis
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
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
Aberjhani
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. Buckminster Fuller