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What person who does what this woman does has not been there? How I admire them and cherish them. I see them each day, serving in a variety of ways, dealing with the heartbreaking realities of the poor: frustration; violent transference; physical and mental sickness; rejection; police harassment; loneliness; hunger for food, friendship, and purpose
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on a visit to New York City, he saw hungry-looking men sleeping in alleyways, as if one foot were already in the grave. “These people are Les Miseràbles of America,” he wrote to his parents in September 1965. “People that don’t make it in America’s social race to succeed are simply run over.”
Ariel Sabar • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea
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Chris Arnade • A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism
From this shock jock’s viewpoint, it is a crime to be poor and homeless. The moral crime is that people like this jerk have no interest in finding out anything about the human being who stands on the corner, smelling and hungry. Were he to meet one such person and hear that individual’s story, he might understand the beating heart before him and th
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