Dennis Moore Quotes

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn't uncommon to be out of money. There wasn't anywhere to go to get money.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

I'm never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

I feel I should do everything I can to make a difference in Haiti. My main goal to help the people of Haiti is to give them homes, food, and jobs. It is heartbreaking to see little children sleeping on the ground in tents made of trash bags. I hope that we can put an end to this type of poverty not only in Haiti, but in the entire world.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

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.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

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

I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.