Quotes on the topic: Slums


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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.


You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.


We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.


We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.


There are a number of parallels between the slums of Brazil and those found in my hometown, Karachi. The dichotomy that exists in Brazil is uncannily similar to that found in Pakistan, and I hope to one day make a film that follows similar themes.


My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.


The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.