Josiah Strong Cities Quotations

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.