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- Nov 07, 2020
Homeless Quotes
Honest words from people who lived through homelessness.
These quotes come from people who experienced homelessness firsthand, from a difficult childhood to nights spent on borrowed couches before things turned around. The theme connects with Hope Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than allowing Roma, Travellers and homeless people to be picked off, all those of us who fear the criminalisation of trespass should join forces with them, protecting their rights while we defend our own.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an extra on 'New York Undercover.' I played a person at a homeless shelter.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020