Journalism Quote by Matthew Desmond

Take a ride through the city man tell me what you witness. Poverty, richness, crooked cops and misfits, violence, hatred, real devastation, neighborhoods looking…

— JCole

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

— Matthew Desmond

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not…

— Matthew Desmond

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

— Matthew Desmond

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

— Mason Cooley

It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for…

— Ben H. Winters

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…

— Edward Abbey

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

“Sacred Tradition predates and precedes Sacred Scripture, but both come from the same source: God.”

— Consumer Dummies