Condemned Quotes

“Had people become so accustomed to not looking that they were no longer able to see?”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“I can’t be racist if I’m a minority, can I?”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“I hated what this country had become and wanted nothing more than to hold up a mirror so its citizens could see it for what it truly was, not the Land of Opportunity for which our forefathers fought and died, but as the fascist regime that served to funnel the money upward from those most in need into the pockets of those who would see them all starve in the streets, the same men who took away their livelihoods and stranded them in a city rotting beneath their very feet.”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“Bad things had a way of happening to people who opened their mouths in the Murder Capital of the United States.”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“Back then the population was 83% white; today the exact opposite is true.”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“The population of Detroit in 1950 was 1.8 million people,”
― Michael McBride, Condemned

“It served as a symbol of the opulence and prosperity of Detroit until the summer of 1967, when the 12th Street Riot kicked off the white flight to the suburbs and the city took its first steps toward ruination. The”
― Michael McBride, Condemned