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When we see a bag lady ... on the street, in that moment in our lives we try to get as far away from that person as possible, ... But the truth is, that person is me. That person is all of us, to a certain extent.

Don't join America's collective amnesia for the suffering that seems so distant but in fact surrounds us, ... Don't forget about the forgotten people in this world.

For months I'd been trying to convince myself, by convincing everybody back home, that in the crucible of war I'd made that great transition,

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do,

From my experience, sure, if you were a truck driver, you could be incredibly unlucky, ... But I had the feeling that I was safer than I would have been back here as a late adolescent with a car.

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

That thing got pretty rusty,

The underside of a town as nice as Northampton can still be pretty gritty.

Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.

At the time I began writing the book about Northampton, I had recently been in Haiti to do a story for the New Yorker. I don't think I would previously have been able to imagine a place as dreadful as Haiti, and when I came back I couldn't help but think about the advantages we have in this place.

Returning to Northampton, I thought: here's a town that seems to be working pretty well, and I wonder why.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

[When Farmer asked the farmers when they had come to America to work in such miserable conditions, they responded,] Have you ever seen Haiti? ... ... Haiti is a country created by former slaves, kidnapped West Africans who threw off their extremely cruel French masters and created their own new home. It's the only place in the world where this happened, but it happened in 1804, while slavery still flourished here in the United States.

PIH combines idealism and brilliance to a degree I've never witnessed before in the public charity arena,

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