Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

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.

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

More than a billion people in the world live in slums today, roughly one out of every three inhabitants of cities.

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

There is a lot of talent in our slums.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

We are an impoverished society. It is a poor society indeed that can’t pay for … amenities; that has no money for anything except expressways to rush people out of our dull and deteriorating cities

No city in Italy contains so many miserable beggars, and no town in the world so many blind.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

They [poor youth] don't have any respect for the property of others because they don't have any property.

It’s not enough anymore to say “Thank God for Mississippi.”

There are thousands of Fosters in Kentucky, who for want of proper education and encouragement, are lost to the world.

What a miserable place a city is for poor people.

I have lived in Chicago all my life and I still say we have no ghettos in Chicago.