emmadilemma quoted Playbook for Progressives by Eric Mann
One of my regular contacts was a very brave woman whom I'll call Jessie Terry. Jessie and her three young sons would sit around a stove-like heater in the middle of their living room in the freezing cold.... Once, perhaps inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s metaphor, I asked her if she had a dream of what her life could be like.
"My dream is that I am able to walk in front of a car and leave this life and God will not punish me for abandoning my children."
... I realized that I had no capacity out of my own privileged life to grasp that level of despair.
— Playbook for Progressives by Eric Mann (Page 6)