Crime and Violence Quotes

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 grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

Growing up in Flint, Michigan, I saw so many kids from my school end up in jail or unemployed, and gangs would hang out and cause trouble in my neighborhood. I had to learn how to protect myself, because it didn't feel like anyone else was protecting me.

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

You have to understand - I come from a neighborhood where 'The Wire' was filmed.

Baltimore's just like, it's like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.

You must remember that the common criminal will always join the armed forces for, if nothing else, regular meals and expert training in the use of guns.

I came to the U.S. to have opportunities. I saw a lot of people in gangs. I just didn't understand that - you live in the U.S., you have all these opportunities. And then you get in a gang?

The mobs that held fearful sway in our city during the memorable outbreak of violence in the month of July, 1863, were gathered in the overcrowded and neglected quarters of the city. The closely packed houses where the mobs originated seemed to be literally hives of sickness and vice …. To walk the streets as we walked them, in those hours of conflagration and riot, was like witnessing the day of judgment, with every wicked thing revealed, every sin and sorrow blazingly glared upon, every hidden abomination laid before hell’s expectant fire.... Here disease in its most loathsome form propagates itself.