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“Evictions were deserved, understood to be the outcome of individual failure. They helped get rid of the riffraff, some said. No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.In yea...”
“It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and ev...”
“Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.”
“Urban landlords quickly realized that piles of money could be made by creating slums: maximum profits came, not from providing first-class accommodations for those who could well afford them but fr...”
“In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukees blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.”
“Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.”
“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, theres a word ...”
“Is it ok to sometimes be shy?Yes, of course. The point is,that being that way all the time and using it as an excuse to never be the opposite of shy,it's not good. It's not good for your life, your...”
“The fact that corporations constitute what amounts to the governing class today evidences the fact that we are no longer a representative republic; that we are a most ruled people, under the ceasel...”
“Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into ma...”
“These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.”
“A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, i...”
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of t...”
“This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.”
“The journey is the REWARD! NOT the destination.”
“The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event.”
“I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again.”
“People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional ...”
“Vision is the #1 key to adventure.”
“For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live.”
