Michelle Obama Quotes

When passerby's ignore homeless people, they don't know if that was a man or woman in uniform previously. They should not be invisible. They cannot be ignored.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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.

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

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.

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.

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

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

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

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

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