Matthew Desmond Quotes

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent of your income to rent - and eviction becomes something of an inevitability to you, it denies you certain freedoms.

Matthew Desmond

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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.

Haley Joel Osment
- People
- Life
- Work
There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

D'Arcy Carden
- Good
- You
- Simple
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

Ralph Marston
- Want
- Problem
- Complexity
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Haile Selassie
- Time
- World
- True
I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

Gary Burghoff
- People
- Country
- Boy
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Yitzhak Rabin
- Peace
- Struggle
- Israel