“The homeless were my new family. They embraced me. They waved and smiled and treated me with dignity and respect. We may be the most misunderstood and feared people in America, I thought, but we are still family to each… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“I was no different from millions of others—from the millions of teenagers on the street to the millions of aging heroes stored away like… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“The homeless were my new family. They embraced me. They waved and smiled and treated me with dignity and respect. We may be the… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“In my seemingly endless months of sleeping on the streets, I knew of only one other person who had slept in a church by himself overnight, and that was only because he had had pneumonia and someone had taken pity on him. I was the only one who had been invited to occupy the half-million square feet of empty church… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share
“And you know, unless people have been there—lost, alone, rejected, feeling worthless and unwanted—they just can’t know that numb feeling that drags you down.… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“Many Wednesdays had come and gone in my sixty years. I don’t believe I particularly remembered any of them.” — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“All of our wars were carried on the backs of the poor and the sons of the poor. The poor were the first to… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“As we left the death watch, it occurred to me that we were all homeless in some way. It seemed that we were all… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“The poor died first and last in World War I, World War II, and Korea, and fifty-eight thousand Americans died in Vietnam, many of… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“C had spread a roadmap before me with many paths to choose from. I could go on a bitter journey to a place of… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans conservatively estimates that one out of every three homeless men is a veteran.” — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“There were no parades or parties or dancing in the streets like after World War II. No breast-beating pride or songs of victory. It… — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
“Let us be dissatisfied as long as we have a wealth of creeds and poverty of deeds.” — Richard LeMieux Copy Share Image
