Donald Trump Quotes

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?

Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. I will do more for African-Americans and Latinos than Hillary Clinton can ever do in 10 lifetimes.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

I'll tell you what, our inner cities are so, so bad right now. The danger, the crime, the lack of education, no jobs. African Americans are living in hell in our - in the inner cities. I mean, they're living - they're living in hell. You walk to the store for a loaf of bread; you get shot.

I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

African American Communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been before. Ever, ever, ever.

Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

Our government has totally failed our African American friends, our Hispanic friends and the people of our country. Period. The Democrats have failed completely in the inner cities. For those hurting the most who have been failed and failed by their politician —– year after year, failure after failure, worse numbers after worse numbers. Poverty. Rejection. Horrible education. No housing, no homes, no ownership. Crime at levels that nobody has seen. You can go to war zones in countries that we are fighting and it's safer than living in some of our inner cities that are run by the Democrats. And I ask you this, I ask you this —– crime, all of the problems —– to the African Americans, who I employ so many, so many people, to the Hispanics, tremendous people: What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance. I'll straighten it out. I'll straighten it out. What do you have to lose?

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

It’s dangerous to live among poor people, because if they don’t have income, they are coming for you.

There's no lobby for more spending on Black people in the cities.

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.

Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?

Mom came from what has been called the poorest place in America - Lake Providence, Louisiana. She was born on the south side of the Mississippi which was mainly African American and even poorer than the rest.

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

The bad you see in N.Y.C. is troubling to know when it rears its ugly head.

We need law and order in the inner cities, because the people that are most affected by what's happening are African-American and Hispanic people. And it's very unfair to them what our politicians are allowing to happen.