Hobos Quotes (10 quotes)

“I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. ”
― Jhonen Vasquez

tags: hobos

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“I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to heaven
You find no policeman there”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: government, hobos, police-brutality, social-commentary

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“Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—”
― Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

tags: hobos, jesus

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“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“If you've got a Mexican last name, you've got a strike against you.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders

tags: california, farming, hobos, mexican, mexican-american, migrants, murder

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“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“En route to California I had a few drinks with an American executive for Falstaff Brewing Company who said he'd been a hobo from '37 to '39. He talked about a friend of his who had lost his legs beneath a freight train and died. He told me he knew something about farm labor contractors. "Killers," he called them. And said it again, "Killers.”
― Tracy Kidder, The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders

tags: california, farming, hobo, hobos, mexicans, mexico, migrant-workers, migrants

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“Among the tramps were some real bruisers, that was certain, but there were also men who had been badly bruised.”
― Ted Conover, Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

tags: hobos, homelessness, tramps, travellers

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“The hobo is... merely a belated frontiersman, a frontiersman at a time and in a place when the frontier is passing or no longer exists.”
― Robert Ezra Park, The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment

tags: frontier, hobos, traveling

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