These images [of hardships in New Orleans immediately after Hurricane Katrina] were not, and are not, abstractions. These are the neighbors and friends and family of everyone in New Orleans - and, by extension, in the United States. The expression "There but for the grace of God go I" has fallen into some disuse recently, but it is useful, whatever your God looks like. The person who suffers is you.
Tom Piazza, Why New Orleans Matters. Harper Perennial, 2008. p. xvii
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