We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
They are safe but they are not in their homes. They are city-less. I think it's just a disaster for everyone.
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening
Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
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.
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
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