looking insurance want oppression, find neighbors’ prosperity goodwill — Wendell Berry, Art Commonplace: Agrarian Essays

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If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities – and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared.(pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")

Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

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