Quotes of Homeless - somelinesforyou

“ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Don't tell me that you're pitiful because you're homeless. You just need some help; ain't nothing pitiful about that. ”

- Alice Harris

“ I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve. ”

- Linda Lingle

“ I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered… ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door… ”

- Emma Lazarus

“ No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure? ”

- Frederick Farrar

“ There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities! ”

- Mark Twain

“ This, rather, is the fasting that I wish… sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; Clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. ”

- Ronald Reagan
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