Matthew Desmond quote: "The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader."

Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they&...
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A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ...
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Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
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I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
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We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
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Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet...
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It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
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I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t...
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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
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Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi...
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Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak...
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ...
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A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
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You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for tha...
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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain ...
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental we...
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You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this th...
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Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.
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Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the aver...
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Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction ...
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
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Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship sta...
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African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
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Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrificati...
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Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whethe...
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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. Th...
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When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by...
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I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. I...
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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure or...
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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that...
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I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in the...
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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.
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Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're ...
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Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of the...
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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much ...
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dy...
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Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a bus...
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The cost of evictions varies a lot, but it could be for landlords an expensive process as well. Amon...
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You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potenti...
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provo...
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Since evictions go through court, it has a record that comes with it, and many landlords that I spen...
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Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions a...
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If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a la...
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I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van. That's...
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Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either ...
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When I left Milwaukee, and I had all these stories. I felt so responsible for people. It's a hec...
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I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise ...
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There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure...
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Since the publication of 'Evicted', I have had countless conversations with concerned famili...
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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma...
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There is a reason so many Americans choose to develop their net worth through homeownership: It is a...
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Some white Milwakeeans still referred to the North side as 'the cire', as they did in the 19...
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Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always...
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Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing as...
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What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is qui...
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Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandm...
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Substandard housing was a blow to your psychological health, not only because things like dampness, ...
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In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction o...
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Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're o...
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Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. Americ...
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of ...
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defen...
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Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do no...
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Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by i...
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Poor black families were “immersed in a domestic web of a large number of kin and friends whom the...
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In 2013, 1 percent of poor renters lived in rent-controlled units; 15 percent lived in public housin...
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Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.
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For almost a century, there has been broad consensus in America that families should spend no more t...
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Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looke...
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In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate...
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The Hinkstons expected more of their landlord for the money they were paying her. Rent was their big...
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Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those ap...
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Universal housing programs have been successfully implemented all over the developed world. In count...
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Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Aut...
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We have the money. We’ve just made choices about how to spend it. Over the years, lawmakers on bot...
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The profits were staggering. In 1966, a Chicago landlord told a court that on a single property he h...
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The year the police called Sherrena, Wisconsin saw more than one victim per week murdered by a curre...
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But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disp...
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it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should ...
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
DESMOND TUTU

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most...
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us p...
DESMOND TUTU

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world i...
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overw...
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When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
PHOENIX DESMOND

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
DESMOND TUTU

We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ou...
DESMOND MORRIS

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity amo...
DESMOND TUTU

Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
DESMOND TUTU

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
DESMOND TUTU

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of i...
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that so...
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the g...
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Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don'...
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said Let us pray. ...
DESMOND TUTU

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

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we...
DESMOND MORRIS

I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so ...
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I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constra...
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Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
DESMOND MORRIS

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...
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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made fo...
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in un...
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known ...
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and p...
DESMOND MORRIS

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...
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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
DESMOND MORRIS

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil -...
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people ar...
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've...
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and...
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the ...
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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...
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If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
DESMOND TUTU

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm ...
DESMOND TUTU

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...
DESMOND TUTU

The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Ex...
RICHARD DESMOND

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception i...
DESMOND MORRIS

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's c...
DESMOND TUTU

We would like to see you departing peacefully.
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You never know how crazy a person is...until they tell you their nightmares.
EMILY DESMOND

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things a...
DESMOND TUTU

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
DESMOND TUTU

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

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

Sometimes people think (that) to see that we are family is to be sentimental. But one has to say: Th...
DESMOND TUTU

Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.
DESMOND TUTU

The World Cup will be more than just a football tournament
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We call on the international community, which was so tremendous in its fight against another epidemi...
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« Si vous êtes neutre dans les situations d'injustice, vous avez choisi le camp de l'agresseur. ...
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Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of thi...
DESMOND TUTU

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
PAUL DESMOND

It's great isn't it, all this exercise lark? I used to laugh at people on treadmills; now I ...
RICHARD DESMOND

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to societ...
DESMOND TUTU

We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behi...
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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

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not a...
DESMOND TUTU

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards ...
DESMOND TUTU

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to...
DESMOND LLEWELYN

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were F...
DESMOND TUTU

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together
DESMOND TUTU

To be an artist you have to have talent, to be a good one you have to have insanity
EMILY DESMOND

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because...
DESMOND TUTU

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - par...
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to ...
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Sovereignty is back on the agenda.
DESMOND MORTON

Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
DESMOND MORRIS

Without forgiveness, there's no future
DESMOND TUTU

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much ...
DESMOND TUTU

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
DESMOND TUTU

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
DESMOND TUTU

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called...
DESMOND DEKKER

Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't t...
RICHARD DESMOND

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...
DESMOND TUTU

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
DESMOND TUTU

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundat...
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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

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The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

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