“With all the bad things going on in the world right now, I think it’s teaching all of us to appreciate positivity much more.”— Oneya Johnson, buzzfeednews.com
“Today, nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty and tonight, 500,000 people will be sleeping out on the streets. About half of the country lives paycheck to paycheck as tens of millions of our people are an accident, a divorce, a sickness or a layoff away from economic devastation.”— Bernie Sanders, vox.com
“Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food…”— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com
“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 who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”— Mother Teresa, depts.washington.edu
“Los Angeles plays small ball really well. What’s missing oftentimes is the ability to bring the entire community together on behalf of issues or opportunities that will benefit the community as a whole.”— Austin Beutner, nytimes.com
“If you look at the world and say yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse. Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to co…”— Markus Bones, markusbones.tumblr.com
“Well, you, my friend, have crossed the line that divides man and bum. You are now a bum.”— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Homeless people are human beings with immense value. They are members of our families, communities, neighborhoods, cities, and, for a number of people reading this, they are themselves (or have been). The fact that homeless people do not have housing is a wrong done against them, not a sign they did…”— @entitledrichpeople, entitledrichpeople.tumblr.com
“STRENGTH I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer on November 4, 2015. As I was recovering from a mastectomy, going through chemotherapy and radiation, my partner and our kettlebells workout group gave me a key with the word "strong." I have treasured this act of kindness and support throughout th…”— -Lynn, thegivingkeys.com