Richard Nixon Quotes

Urban riots must now be recognized as a durable social phenomenon. They are a special form of violence ... mainly intended to shock the white community.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

What began as a political protest turned into a class war and a racial pogrom.

America will continue paying a high price in civil and ethnic unrest unless the nation commits itself to help the urban poor lead productive and respectable lives.

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

People without jobs cannot be expected to behave in a lawful, measured way.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

Poor people sometimes feel that they have no other recourse than to destroy the property of those who have it.

Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

The murder, savage brutality, and violence perpetrated by Alabama lawmen have so aroused the nation as to make action by the Congress necessary and speedy.

Rebellions broke out, from the full-scale political revolution of Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island to urban violence and protest, often by out of work whites taking out their anger on African Americans or Irish Americans. In response, leaders had to come to terms with the role of force in a democracy.

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

We've got to take care of the poor.

If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.