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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

Topics: Become Enough Eternally Fed Get Ghetto Hand He Him Must Never Out Pushes Strong Will

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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

Topics: Assumption Confined Deal Education Forces Fundamental Ghetto Leadership Life Make Matters Must Possible Religion Social Then Things Uplift

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When I first heard rap, I wasn't quick to be critical. I couldn't understand what they were saying, but I had a feeling it was a reflection of what's been happening in the ghetto.

~Casey Kasem

Topics: Been Critical Feeling First Ghetto Had Happening Heard Quick Rap Reflection Saying Understand Were

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Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.

~Coolio

Topics: Because Black Car Driving Expensive Get Ghetto Man Neighbourhood Nice Really Rolling Sometimes Through Young

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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.

~Damian Marley

Topics: Boy Full Ghetto Jamaica Like Me Never See Tell You

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Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Army Atomic Atomic Bomb Bomb Ghetto Grip Israel Mentality Out Powerful Psychology Tone Warsaw

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My dad was born in 1930 in Lithuania, located in Eastern Europe. He was 9 years old when the war started, and his family was sent to the Kovno ghetto. They were soon separated and sent to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

~Daniel Lubetzky

Topics: Born Camp Concentration Dad Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Family Germany Ghetto He His Located Old Sent Separated Soon Started War Were Years

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'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Architecture Black Connecting District Fresh Ghetto Harlem Historical Looking Past Surprise Way

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The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don't have to appeal to anything... I haven't heard Mrs. Clinton talk about the urban pathologies in the American ghetto that are the result of progressive urban policies - failed policies.

~David A. Clarke, Jr.

Topics: About American Anything Appeal Black Clinton Democrats Failed Ghetto Granted Heard Policies Progressive Result Take Talk Urban Vote Mrs

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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

Topics: Before Born Ghetto Ground Kind Refined Right See Slums You I Was Born

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