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The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.

Eric Sevareid
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By improving the lives of slum dwellers, we are also combating malnutrition and diseases, many of which are directly linked to overcrowding and to the lack of clean water and improved sanitation. By the same token, slum improvement helps improve environmental sustainability and addresses gender inequality in the most efficient manner.

Anna Tibaijuka
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Floyd Patterson
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It's the city's new rolling slum. Well, it's not exactly new. It's just bigger.

Rick Reynolds
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job . . .

Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Spiro T. Agnew
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The slum is the measure of civilization.

Jacob Riis
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Elliot Park's poverty level is the highest of any neighborhood in the city, ... You don't find slum properties. That tells you poor people are living in quality housing.

David Fields
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The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition . . .

Alan Brien
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