Quotes with ghetto-

  • One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
  • This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Bono As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bobby Seale But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party- whose members for the most part come from the ghetto- seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.
    Interview with The Guardian (February 1970)
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Malcolm X I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.
    U.S. News & World Report, 30-03-1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Stokely Carmichael One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bono The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Florence Griffith-Joyner The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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  • Anzia Yezierska The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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