Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

All men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty

A wandering family [in Ireland] will fix themselves under a dry bank and with a few sticks, furze, fern, etc,, make up a hovel much worse than an English pigsty, and support themselves how they can by work, begging, and stealing.

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.

I don't really live anywhere.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

But where else should they sleep?

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

This is the land of freedom. The press is at liberty. Every man has a right to express his opinion. Many thinks, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. He hath formed and fashioned you in his own glorious image, and hath bestowed upon you reason and strong powers of intellect. He hath made you to have dominion over the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea. He hath crowned you with glory and honor; hath made you but a little lower than the angels; and, according to the Constitution of these United States, he hath made all men free and equal …. It is not the color of the skin that makes the man, but it is the principles formed within the soul.

Every citizen has, under the law, a sacred and inviolable right to personal liberty and to the possession of his goods

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.

There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.