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

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.

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

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.

All the tools, techniques and technology in the world are nothing without the head, heart and hands to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully

Love what you are.

Dream big. Start small. Begin today.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.