Homelessness Quotes

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  • By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

    Dog   Cousin   Animal  
    "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.
  • 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.

    Fate   Actors   Spirit  
    Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company
  • 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."

    Loss   Soul   Culture  
  • Our Government is proud to support the Provincial Metis Housing Corporation and its local partners, like Yorkton Parkland Housing, and all of the important work they do in our province to help those in need. With a roof over their heads, all Canadians can prosper as we work together towards eliminating homelessness.

  • Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!

    War   Cancer   America  
  • 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.

  • The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

    C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press
  • I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.

    Thinking   Trying   Able  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • For 30 years I have used my platform in provocative ways to encourage a healthy dialogue about important issues, including HIV/AIDS, war, and homelessness. I'm well aware of the risks that come with this approach, and if this encourages further awareness and discussion about critical issues then all-the-better.

    War   Years   Issues  
    "Kenneth Cole in hot water again over Syria-related tweet". www.today.com. September 6, 2013.
  • Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

    Views   Addiction   Drug  
  • It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

    Dream   Special   Kind  
  • The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

    Jonathan Kozol (2011). “Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America”, p.14, Broadway Books
  • We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

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

    Pride   Despair   Depth  
    Source: collider.com
  • 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.

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

    Animal   Support   Parent  
  • The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

    Mean   Practice   Issues  
  • 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.

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

    Risk   Lgbt   Faces  
    "Permission Slip". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 4, 2016.
  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

    Country   Believe   Order  
    Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 10, 2001.
  • I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

    Home   Adoption   Pet  
    "Saving Pets’ Lives Starts With Adoption" by Josh Duhamel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.
  • 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.

    Mother   Children   Kids  
  • I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.

  • The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  • Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

  • New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

  • 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.

  • I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

  • 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.

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