Jos Buttler

But one of the best things away from playing was a visit to a Mumbai slum. You see people in their conditions, getting stuck into their way of life and not moaning, and realise how lucky you are to be doing what you are doing. It put things into perspective.

English Athlete

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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.

American Psychologist

Oscar Hammerstein II

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.

American Musician

Frank McCourt

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

Irish Author

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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.

American Architect

Jackie Robinson

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

American Baseball Player

Nick McDonell

Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world.

American Writer

Ory Okolloh

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

Kenyan Activist

Tee Grizzley

When people hear my music, they ain't really hearing about no shiny stuff, the glamorous life. They're going to hear that gritty, slum.

Vetrimaaran

Slum children eat crow's eggs for nutrition yet nobody respects this common bird. It's the exotic birds which fascinate all.

Indian Director

Refers to impoverished areas in a city, indicating extreme poverty and crowded living.

Urban Poverty

Implies inadequate access to services like clean water, sanitation, and health care.

Living Conditions

Associated with makeshift or poorly constructed homes that may be unsafe.

Housing Quality

The act of visiting slums can be seen as insensitive or exploitative.

Misplaced Adventure

The verb suggests a temporary departure from one's typical standards.

Temporary State

Often used ironically to refer to mildly inconvenient situations.

Irony or Sarcasm

 And so I found an academic who was doing a research project in slums outside of D.C., where she picked up women who had come in for other health problems and diagnosed them with depression, and then provided six months of the experimental protocol. One of them, Lolly, came in, and this is what she said the day she came in.

Depression, the secret...

 photographer came to me and said we need to document this and here's my here's my proposal let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world and I said well you know that might be a bit ambitious for our budget so instead what we did was we decided to instead of going out and doing what

How photography connects...

 Now, one in three people living in cities today actually live in a slum. That's one billion people in the world live in slums. A hundred million people in the world are homeless. The scale of the challenge for architects and for society to deal with in building

Michael Green: Why we...

 There are a lot of ways you can describe this. You know, I like to call it "the national automobile slum." You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 India's of the world and there you have the problems I described except these countries or cash poor budgets trained in budget terms have poor health care systems and have a lot of overcrowding I mean think about the slums of a place

How the coronavirus...

 And I spoke with this women's group that's pictured here. And the women talked very openly about their family life in the slums, what it was like. And they talked quite intimately about what they did for birth control.

Let's put birth control...

 as laborers, babysitters, house helps and countless other jobs that we need for cities to function without a glitch? And where do they live? In most cities, they live in slums.

What if the poor were...

 too often we get stuck because these beliefs and worldviews become invisible to us unconscious when I moved into the slums of Kibera I forgot my parents worries my country's

What forgiveness can...

 it may be creepy but it's also quiet and safe particularly when compared to the slums of Manila where squalor and drugs are part of daily life

Living Among the Dead PIPE...

 the females if the slum Dogz catch her alone they'll show no mercy Hector and his foot soldiers rush forward they're hoping to hold off the