The private decision of real-estate developers to ring a city with carefully zoned, relatively expensive suburbs exacerbates racial tensions, segregates education on the basis of color and class, modifies the urban tax base and consequently the political order, and embitters the experience of old age for those who are left behind.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.

Because the slums are no longer centers of powerful political organizations, the politicians need not really care about their inhabitants.

Even when the money finally trickles down, even when a school is built in a poor neighborhood, for instance, the poor are still deprived.

The American poor are pessimistic and defeated, and they are victimized by mental suffering to a degree unknown in Suburbia.

The millions who are poor in the United States tend to become increasingly invisible.

America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Beauty and myths are perennial masks of poverty.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society

The growing chasm between private and social cost, the corporate control of a technology which is essentially public, called into question a most basic assumption of Western thought: that man frees himself through reason.