Molly

“capitalism is inherently about workers trying to get as much, and owners trying to give as little, as possible. With unions largely out of the picture, corporations have chipped away at the conventional mid-century work arrangement, which involved steady employment, opportunities for advancement and raises, and decent pay with some benefits.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

“The police,” my father told them, “may be able to avenge you, but they can’t protect you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“It isn’t enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that’s the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we’ll be wiped out.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“When we refuse to recognize what works, we risk swallowing the lie that nothing does. We risk imagining the future only as more of the same. We risk despairing, perhaps the most exculpating of all emotions, and submitting to cynicism, perhaps the most conservative of all belief systems.”
― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America