Homelessness Quotes - Page 2

• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Spring, Divorce, Thinking

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• What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

  Jewel

  Issues, Essentials, Youth

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• I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the horrors of war. It inspired me to document prostitution; inspired me to document homelessness in America. We are the richest country in the world, yet we have people suffering, so it helped me to look at things in that manner.

  Jamel Shabazz

  Photography, Country, War

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to make it a more egalitarian society and do away with homelessness and hunger and clean up the environment. But these people have no voice. They have no way of expressing themselves. Elections give them no way of expressing themselves.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Believe, Order

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 10, 2001.

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• We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.

  John Carlos Frey

  People, Giving, Population

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that.

  Jack Layton

  Country, Believe, Affordable Housing

  "Layton Slams Martin Over Deaths of Homeless". www.theglobeandmail.com. May 27, 2004.

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• Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Mean, Sleep, Knowing

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Home, Differences

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.

  Pico Iyer

  Reality, Thinking, America

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

  Ned Vizzini

  Long, People, Bed

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• In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

  Graham Nash

  War, People, Trying

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• Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

  Kevin Nealon

  Animal, Support, Parent

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• Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Opportunity, Homeless, Program

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• Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.

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• I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

  Paul Bettany

  People, Peculiar, Response

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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• It would be great for everyone to grow up like I grew up, where everyone had a job. It would be nice for everybody. I'm the son of a "legal" immigrant. I think it would be nice for everyone to get back to work. Get rid of homelessness. People could work. I think if people give Donald Trump a chance, he'll do great.

  Frank Stallone

  Jobs, Growing Up, Nice

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Risk, Lgbt, Faces

  "Permission Slip". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be, it might be homelessness, whatever, but lately I've realized that success is "fulfilling your soul's purpose."

  Jack Canfield

  Loss, Soul, Culture

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• Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

  Anthony Mackie

  Pride, Despair, Depth

  Source: collider.com

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• They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.

  Teri Hatcher

  Home, Thinking, Cities

  "Music stars' hearts are with Katrina victims". www.today.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Home, America, Purpose

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.57, Thomas Wolfe

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• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Kids, Winter

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