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.

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.

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.

It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.

A child is a gift from God.

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.