Matthew Desmond Quotes

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

Matthew Desmond

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  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • America
  • College