Charles M. Blow Quotes

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Charles M. Blow

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• What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • People
  • Violence
  • Poverty