Top Homelessness Quotes
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run....
Ellis Peters
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home, belonging, stillness, attachment, roots, homecoming, homelessness, completion, arrival, fullfilment
There were some places, and streets, where he did not venture since he had learnt that others had claims there greater than his own - not the gangs of meths drinkers who lived in no place and no time,...
Peter Ackroyd
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homeless, london, homelessness, vagrant, homeless people, whitechapel, greenwich, limehouse, spitalfields, wapping
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless c...
Howard Zinn
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justice, racism, desperation, punishment, greed, poverty, jail, prison, retribution, homelessness