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“We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“I didn’t know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn’t believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
“When apparent stability disintegrates, As it must— God is Change— People tend to give in To fear and depression, To need and greed. When no influence is strong enough To unify people They divide. They struggle, One against one, Group against group, For survival, position, power. They remember old hates and generate new ones, They create chaos and nurture it. They kill and kill and kill, Until they are exhausted and destroyed, Until they are conquered by outside forces, Or until one of them becomes”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
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