Inner City Quotes - Page 4

• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Gun, Cities

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.215, Canongate Books

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• We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Wall, Capacity To Love, Cities

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.47, Univ of California Press

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• I want to do things that haven’t been done, including fixing and making our inner cities better for the African-American citizens that are so great, and for the Latinos, Hispanics, and I look forward to doing it. It’s called make America great again.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, America, Citizens

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, African American, Helping

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• You go to some of these inner city places and it's so sad when you look at the crime. You have people - and I've seen this, and I've sort of witnessed it - in fact, in two cases I have actually witnessed it. They lock themselves into apartments, petrified to even leave, in the middle of the day.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Two, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Race, Class

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• As far as inner cities, I was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign, I think it's probably got me much higher percentage of the African American vote than lot of people thought I was going to get. We did much higher than people thought I was going to get. I was honored by that.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Working Very Hard, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Attitude, Kids, Rights

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• American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

  Jack Kemp

  Cities, Long, Despair

  "Speakers List:Jack Kemp, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee". www.cnn.com.

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Player, Cities

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• There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Cities, Way, Republican

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Years, Cities

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Cities, African American

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Cities, Discipline

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• I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Cities, People

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.cbsnews.com. October 10, 2016.

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• I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

  Tracy Morgan

  Kids, Cities, Daddy

  "Tracy Morgan On Being 'The New Black'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2009.

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• I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.

  Maxine Waters

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• You look at the inner cities,I just left Detroit, and I just left Philadelphia.nd I've met some of the greatest people I'll ever meet within these communities. And they are very, very upset with what their politicians have told them and what their politicians have done.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, Philadelphia, People

  Source: time.com

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• I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Heart, Gun

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama, October 17, 2006.

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• If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Girl, Baby, Years

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• The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

  Michael Porter

  Crush, Jobs, Cities

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.

  Questlove

  College, Cities, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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