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“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.”
― Kiss of the Highlander
― Kiss of the Highlander
“Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who've ever lived, dining just a few pathogens away from famine.”
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“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.”
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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