83 Quotes About Ghetto
- Author Habeeb Akande
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Its ghetto paradise for some and hell on earth for others!
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- Author Felix Alexander
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It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.
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- Author Elie Wiesel
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Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.
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- Author Elie Wiesel
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It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
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- Author Dean Cavanagh
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Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die
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- Author Susan Nathan
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Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.
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- Author Trevor Noah
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The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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La rue fait de chaque journée une suite de questions piège, et chaque réponse incorrecte peut provoquer une raclée, une balle dans la peau, une grossesse non désirée. Personne n'en sort indemne. Pourtant, la chaleur qui s dégage de ce danger permanent, de ce flirt constant avec la mort, est excitante.
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- Author Nils Christie
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We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.
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