Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.

No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.

I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

I swear to you on any kind of sacred whateverthefuck you favor: if I live through this I will absolutely start taking your advice." "That'll look nice on your headstone.

Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.