Pete Earley is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction books and novels.
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami. ] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly.
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow.
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it. '
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
Charles XII of Sweden
Bruce Campbell
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Gerald Kaufman
Richard Asher
Oseola McCarty
Ashley Roberts
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Jodie Marsh
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