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“O vinho ela aceita. Também aceita a lagosta, fala lagostim. Mas precisa lembrar a estatística das criancinhas morrendo de fome no Nordeste, esse assunto de Nordeste às vezes exorbita.”

Book:As Meninas

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“First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it. Second premise: Extreme poverty is bad. Third premise: There is some extreme poverty we can prevent without sacrificing anything of comparable moral significance. Conclusion: We ought to prevent some extreme poverty.”

Poverty Ethics Utilitarianism

Book:Practical Ethics

Source: Practical Ethics

“No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a child drown; many can ignore the avoidable deaths of children in Africa or India. The question, however, is not what we usually do, but what we ought to do, and it is difficult to see any sound moral justification for the view that distance, or community membership, makes a crucial difference to our obligations.”

Poverty Ethics Utilitarianism

Book:Practical Ethics

Source: Practical Ethics

“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.”

Poverty Housing Renting

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me.”

Love Self

Book:Verity

Source: Verity

“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.”

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Author:Steven Moffat

“If you count all forms of involuntary displacement—formal and informal evictions, landlord foreclosures, building condemnations—you discover that between 2009 and 2011 more than 1 in 8 Milwaukee renters experienced a forced move.”

Poverty Housing Renting Evictions

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Fewer and fewer families can afford a roof over their head. This is among the most urgent and pressing issues facing America today, and acknowledging the breadth and depth of the problem changes the way we look at poverty. For decades, we’ve focused mainly on jobs, public assistance, parenting, and mass incarceration. No one can deny the importance of these issues, but something fundamental is missing. We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.”

Poverty Housing

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“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.”

Poverty Housing Public Housing

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“For many landlords, it was cheaper to deal with the expense of eviction than to maintain their properties; it was possible to skimp on maintenance if tenants were perpetually behind; and many poor tenants would be perpetually behind because their rent was too high.”

Poverty Housing Eviction Renting

Book:Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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