And then oftentimes, the people who do the really important work in disasters, which doesn’t get talked about much, are the neighbors.
Rebecca Solnit
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Falling Together — On Being interview with Krista Tippett (2016); Complete sentence in Solnit’s own interview answer about mutual help during disasters. Official transcript and surrounding examples checked; not the Dorothy Day quotations elsewhere in the interview.
- Falling Together — On Being interview with Krista Tippett (2016)
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