Leila Janah Quotes

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.

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

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

Men who were heads of families wandering the streets, eating from garbage cans

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

The holidays are a rough time for the homeless, but it's a year-round problem we have to solve.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

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.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

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

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

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.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

Our poor children are suffering every day for want of necessities of life…All this is for the love of strong drink.

A population sodden with drink, steeped in vice, eaten up by every social and physical malady, these are the denizens of darkest England ... the submerged tenth: Is it then beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live.

The hungry and homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care for cultural heritage.

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

All the other problems of poverty emanate from problems of health.

Poverty, discrimination and ignorance decrease growth.

It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

In the cases that come before the Department of Justice involving a wide range of unlawful activities, we see repeated evidence of family and community failures.

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.