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To damage the earth is to damage your children. —WENDELL BERRY, FARMER AND POET
Don’t worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
There was something she hadn’t known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you’d never known it.
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A cave that tightened around you, its pinprick of light closing a little more at the end of each desperate, unchanged day.
“People get scared when they lose their jobs and they tend to blame outsiders. The first step is to call them criminals. The rest is easy. You know about that,”
Courage is fear you ignore.
They feared who Americans always fear: the outsider.
It wasn’t the fear that mattered
in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. “Yes.”
