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Lynn Laitala
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“... the Great Society's War on Poverty was also a war on alternative values. In reality it became a war on the poor, not on poverty.”
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“In most of the traditional cultures of the world, homelessness would be impossible; first because of large protective kin systems, and second because homes were easily constructed from materials at hand. In America today we consider homelessness as a lack of shelter, not as a breakdown of community.”
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“People are easier to control when they are all alike.”
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“Diversity is the most basic principle of creation. No two snowflakes, blades of grass or people are alike.”
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“Hope is a terrible thing when you have accustomed yourself to despair.”
Lynn Laitala, U.S. writer, journalist
(1947)
Full name: Lynn Maria Laitala.