…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.―Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
—Louisa May Alcott
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It’s not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.—Kristin Armstrong
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
—Meredith Monk
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.—Barack Obama
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Be a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.—Lisa Anita Wegner
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And all good things for 2020!
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.—Eleanor Roosevelt
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