Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.


Desmond Tutu

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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
MATTHEW DESMOND
An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
MATTHEW DESMOND
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and p...
DESMOND MORRIS
Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
MATTHEW DESMOND
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
DESMOND MORRIS
Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship sta...
MATTHEW DESMOND
The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Ex...
RICHARD DESMOND
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrificati...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whethe...
MATTHEW DESMOND
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception i...
DESMOND MORRIS
Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. Th...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You never know how crazy a person is...until they tell you their nightmares.
EMILY DESMOND
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. I...
MATTHEW DESMOND
These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure or...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that...
MATTHEW DESMOND
it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, extended, straightened, waved, put up, let d...
DESMOND MORRIS
No matter how old we become, we can still call them "Holy Mother" and "Father" and put a child-like ...
DESMOND MORRIS
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape
DESMOND MORRIS
As potential areas for body decoration the buttocks provide little scope. They are too private for d...
DESMOND MORRIS
CNS just fixes computers. We try to do the best of our ability to fix student computers.
DESMOND MORRIS
What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
DESMOND LLEWELYN
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in the...
MATTHEW DESMOND
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely...
DESMOND BAGLEY
Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of the...
MATTHEW DESMOND
When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dy...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND
Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a bus...
MATTHEW DESMOND
The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Amon...
MATTHEW DESMOND
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potenti...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provo...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spen...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions a...
MATTHEW DESMOND
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la...
MATTHEW DESMOND
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ...
RICHARD DESMOND
I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN
Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER
When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec...
MATTHEW DESMOND