Edward Brooke Quotes

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.

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

Look what we have built ... low-income projects that became worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

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.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

I know we haven't cleaned up all the slums, but I didn't create the slums, did I?

There is plenty of affordable housing —it is simply occupied by the wrong people.... The problem in New York is not high rents, but low incomes.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

It is one thing to listen in perfunctory fashion to tales of overcrowding tenements, and it is quite another actually to see what that overcrowding means, some hot summer night, by even a single inspection during the hours of darkness.

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.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Part of the problem is the connotation that some attach to the homeless: the assumption that if you're homeless, you're going to misbehave. But not all homeless people do misbehave.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

Remember 1932. You remember the closed banks and the breadlines and the starvation wages; the foreclosures of homes and farms, and the bankruptcies of business; the Hoovervilles: and the young men and women of the Nation facing a hopeless, jobless, future: the closed factories and mines and mills: the ruined and abandoned farms: the stalled railroads and the empty clocks; the blank despair of a whole Nation—and the utter impotence of the Federal Government.

The slums will be but a memory.

If you people can’t afford to live in our town, then you’ll just have to leave.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

It is not squalid people who produce the squalid housing; it is the squalid housing that makes squalid people.