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“When horrors begin to tear apart the people of this city,” Mab said calmly, “when its women and children cry out for help, I should find amusement in seeing you attempt to restrain him.”
Ooh, Mab knew EXACTLY what she wanted in a Knight.
“Some things we can’t fix. One of those things is people who are from one place disliking people from another place. If it wasn’t that, it would be something else. The reason isn’t important or relevant. It’s a handy excuse.”
― Operation Bounce House
― Operation Bounce House
“Just because desperate people seek out exploitative conditions doesn't make those conditions any less exploitative.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Being poor,” they write, “reduces a person’s cognitive capacity more than going a full night without sleep.” When we are preoccupied by poverty, “we have less mind to give to the rest of life.” Poverty does not just deprive people of security and comfort; it siphons off their brainpower, too.[19]”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“We were a cause to them, and causes were these floating, nebulous things that lived on screens and online forums. A ribbon one could put on their profile picture. They were something one could wear like a pair of sunglasses or a new jacket, a way to present themselves to the world, a way to say, Look at my halo. Look at how much I care.”
― Operation Bounce House
― Operation Bounce House
“Poverty measures exclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
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