Best quotes by Matthew Desmond on Life

Checkout quotes by Matthew Desmond on Life

• ‟ 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 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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• ‟ If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.

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• ‟ The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.

  - Matthew Desmond