Emily

“careful understanding of the motivations and the constraints of everyone can lead to policies and institutions that are better designed, and less likely to be perverted by corruption or derelication of duty. these changes will be incremental, but they will sustain and build on themselves. they can be the start of a quiet revolution.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. It can be received gladly or grudgingly, in big gulps or in tiny tastes.”
― Anne Lamott

“things change when hearts and minds across the country change. things change when social movements begin, when peoples understandings change, when families rethink their values, when congregations examine their faith, when communities get mobilized, and when nations are moved by moral contradictions and imperatives”
― Jim Wallis (Author)