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“If you live in a house that needs shingles, you will attend a school that needs books, and while sitting in that school's desk you'll struggle to focus because your tooth needs a dentist or your stomach needs food.”
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
― Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
“Public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis, designed to extinguish our dreams before they have a chance to be born.”
― No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
― No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
“Unfortunately, when hope diminishes, the hate is often turned most bitterly toward those who originally built up the hope.”
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“As the nation passes from opposing extremist behavior to the deeper and more pervasive elements of equality, white America reaffirms its bonds to the status quo. It had contemplated comfortably hugging the shoreline but now fears that the winds of change are blowing it out to sea.”
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
― Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Without succumbing to political nightmares, we might ponder whether the bleak, socially estranged future facing poor kids in America today could have unanticipated political consequences tomorrow. So quite apart from the danger that the opportunity gap poses to American prosperity, it also undermines our democracy and perhaps even our political stability.”
― Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
― Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
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Colleen’s 2024 Year in Books
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