Passenger Quotes

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

There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.

I know people think I'm a stupid little street queen out there begging for change cause there's nothing else she knows how to do.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

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.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.