#slums

Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops — like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#men

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#breeding #class #crime #delirium #grounds

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armed #habits #may #mission #personal

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #i #look #poor #slums

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground. ↗

— Della Reese

#born #ghetto #ground #i #i was born

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#become #doctor #far #form #free

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#public-school #slums #home

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty. ↗

— John Grierson

#cruelty #doorstep #drama #earth #ends

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#anything #beautiful #filled #hope #i

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around. ↗

— Larry Norman

#floating #getting #got #him #i