Homelessness Quote by Donald O'Donovan Download Open image ““We are all refugees, and we have the scar to prove it.”” — Donald O'Donovan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Homelessness Immigration
“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and damned flowing through Europe is… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I looked at these refugees--and the for the first time, let myself really see them. Their faces felt familiar to me, somehow. The pain… — Nicole Perlman Copy Share Image
“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma they long… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“But if the world measures a refugee according to the worst story, we will always excuse human suffering, saying it is not yet as… — Victoria Armour-Hileman Copy Share Image
“I may have fled out of fear, but I carry with me dreams; dreams of a community that thrives on understanding, compassion, and inclusion.… — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
“Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house? Refugees don't exist. Only blown… — Ad De Bont Copy Share Image
“We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I’d been elected, the projection of their own inner hell.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Meditation doesn’t lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember, at the… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I’d been elected, the projection of their own inner hell.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
“And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe’s Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Covid-19 has lit an even hotter fire in me to become a more active participant in advocating for homeless people and homelessness relief. Being… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers… — Passenger Copy Share Image
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to. — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
“Meditation doesn’t lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.” — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is… — Henry Cisneros Copy Share Image
“My grandfather was a railroad brakeman, sixty years with the D&H. I'd sit on his lap when I was little, I remember, at the… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. — Millard Fuller Copy Share Image
