No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allow — Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

— Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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