"we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system."

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Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

Barbara Ehrenreich

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“All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.”
“Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.”
“I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.”

Source : "Writers Reflect On Childhood Torment In 'Dear Bully'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 7, 2011.
“Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.”
“A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.”

Source : Henry Francis Lyte (1833). “Poems: Chiefly Religious”, p.100
“Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.”
“People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.”
“I'm ready. I feel like I can't be beat. You have to feel like that being a fighter. I just feel like this is a bigger type of energy. I feel like I've beaten so many odds. I feel kind of invincible. It's going to be a good fight.”

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