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“I don’t know about you, but I want to do more than just survive. I want to live. I want my life to have purpose and meaning. I want to leave the world better than I found it.”
― Jasmin Graham

“I learned that just because something is one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way, and it doesn’t mean it can’t change. I learned that you don’t need to change the world - you just need to change your small piece of the world.”
― Jasmin Graham

“The USDA is responsible for feeding students who cannot afford lunch. Letting empathetic strangers pick up the tab falsely frames poverty, food insecurity, and discrimination as individual, not systemic, issues”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

“Attaching work requirements to government benefits reflects a belief that social assistance is not a right of citizenship but a gift that its recipients must earn. It insists that poverty is not an accident of birth and social circumstances but a reflection of individuals’ bad choices or capabilities.”
― Andrea Freeman, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch