Best quotes by Matthew Desmond on Home

Checkout quotes by Matthew Desmond on Home

• ‟ The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

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• ‟ Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

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• ‟ Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

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• ‟ Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

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• ‟ I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

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• ‟ Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

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• ‟ You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.

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• ‟ It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

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• ‟ I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, those ideals really fall apart.

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