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.

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

I like cats. They don't care if you love Jesus.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

I don't like to go to premieres or openings. I don't like to have to put on makeup.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!