Social Displacement Quotes

In many cases, the politicians who decided to construct a dam many years ago made mistakes. The problems a dam was built to solve sometime don't materialize or are resolved in other ways. A dam might be poorly designed or improperly constructed. For whatever reason, mistakes are made. In other instances, dams out-live their usefulness. We all make mistakes, and we all understand that an object can become obsolete. Times and conditions change.

People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous industries which were in no position to compete, and a consequent destruction of livelihoods and communities.

I've seen my friends, my community forced from the city I call home.

Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Gentrification is what brings in all the money to the cities, but it also pushes some people out.

The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

The 'Shoreditchification' of certain areas, although it's seen as a negative by some, has actually been very positive for parts of London.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?'

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.