Homeless Advocacy Quotes

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.

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

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

New Yorkers want to be compassionate, and they want to live in a city where homeless people aren't stuffed into shelters, spilling out onto the streets. They also want a support system that works.

I do Skid Row every night.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.

I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That's the guys I'd rather go talk to. I'd rather take my act outside the church.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

There is no greater priority for the department whose name begins with 'housing' than dealing with houselessness .... We can do better than 1 million people sleeping in the streets.

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.

People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers - don't make changes without thinking through the impact of them on the homeless.

When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

The homeless have a right to a proper living area of their own, too, and we have begged for the public’s comprehension.