Urban Areas Quotes - Page 2

• In many large urban areas, the majority of working age African American men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives. It is viewed as "normal" in ghetto communities to go to prison or jail.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Jail

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very humbled by the fact that grassroots efforts are rising up all over the country, but particularly in my home state of Ohio. I barely have words. To know that so many people across the state, from the rural areas to the urban areas, see something in my leadership and really believe I am someone for the people means a lot to me. That's how I want people to see me and my public service.

  Nina Turner

  Country, Believe, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.

  Timothy Shriver

  Kids, Skills, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Walls are very important when you`re separating two urban areas where if you`re actually able to get over the border you can probably get into the underground network in about 30 seconds. But when you`re out in the middle of the desert, it makes no sense because you have border security people have up to a day to apprehend people who are crossing illegally.

  John Yarmuth

  Wall, Two, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Our future can't be separated from the fact that we are all going to be increasingly compacted into urban areas, though we're different in race and culture and religion. And what we make of that will determine the American future.

  David Simon

  Race, Different, Culture

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

  Al Sharpton

  Thinking, Feet, Yesterday

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Recovery, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.

  Julianne Malveaux

  North Carolina, Triangles, Urban

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

  Keith Ellison

  Country, Thinking, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

  Manmohan Singh

  Numbers, Order, Law

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have on violence.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Teacher, Giving

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, August 28, 2016.

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• Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.

  Devra Davis

  Cancer, Phones, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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