Quotes about Displacement

The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Waste persons are those no longer useful as resources to a society for whatever reason, and have become apatrides, or noncitizens. Waste persons must be placed out of view-in ghettos, slums, reservations, camps, retirement villages, mass graves, remote territories, strategic hamlets-all places of desolation, and uninhabitable. We live in a century whose Master Players have created many millions of such "superfluous persons" (Rubenstein).

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

The gospels were all about God becoming king, but the creeds are focused on Jesus being God. It would be truly remarkable if one great truth of early Christian faith and life were actually to displace another, to displace it indeed so thoroughly that people forgot it even existed. But that's what I think has happened.

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Since you shove with flank and shoulder, butting all the weak ones with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!

It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.