They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
-- Denis Kearney

* Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. -- Dennis Kucinich

 

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.
-- Linda Lingle

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

“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.”
-- Sheila McKechnie

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
-- Pras Michel

Our aim is to convince the world's leaders that our cities, towns and villages need to be healthy, safe, just and sustainable.
-- Wally N'Dow

'My home is a place of warmth and love. No one should be denied a home.'
-- Gail Porter

"Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable."
-- Daniel Quinn

'Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.'
-- Corinne Bailey Rae

* If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. -- Susan Sarandon If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving. -- Susan Sarandon

* Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. -- Amartya Sen

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities. In other cases, the unfreedom links closely to the lack of public facilities and social care, such as the absence of epidemiological programs, or of organized arrangements for the health care or educational facilities, or of effective insititutions for the maintenance of local peace and order. In still other cases, the violation of freedom results directly from a denial of political and civil liberties by authoritarian regimes and from imposed restrictions on the freedom to participate in the social, political and economic life of the community.
-- Amartya Sen

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
-- Tony Snow

 

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