Jack Kerouac Quotes

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Life is really hard for some people.

I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.

We're living in hard times.

The miseries of the Indonesian people are sandwiched between two thick slabs of bread—one the bread of hope, the other the bread of patience

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation as well as their ingenuity and guts.

I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

I don't believe watching dreams but like to stick to reality. Reality is all about flood, hunger, illness.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

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

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.