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“A broken world doesn’t need your perfection. It needs your presence, your persistence, your hands in the soil.”

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“And there are programs in every city designed to assist them to get off the streets, or so they say. But in truth only the most functional among the homeless are able to access these programs. Lines are endless, forms are impossible to decipher, qualifications can't be met, standards don't apply.”

Homeless People

Book:A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

Source: A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

“Treat him as a friend and save a life - A homeless man is not a leper.”

Homeless People

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“...problems around sleeping, fatigue, boredom, killing time, storage, health, sex, along with harassment and dozens of unpredictable difficulties encountered on the street -- were some of the 'little murders of everyday life' that confronted homeless women.”

Homeless People

Book:Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

Source: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“Homeless people go to bed freezing and wake up shaking in the morning, even if they have a sleeping bag. If they don’t have a sleeping bag, it’s unlikely they’ll get any sleep during the night. They shake all night and sleep during the day. If it wasn’t for the soup runs many of these people would die. So I say that people who’ve been unable to find a job should be ‘volunteered’ into food bank work”

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Book:100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“Can you…explain this word to me?” she asked, looking at the word…written: Broke(n). “It…means I am broke and broken”

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Book:Broke[n]

Source: Broke[n]

“I have the liberty to defecate anywhere I like, For my mother has no privacy to pee.”

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Book:A Candle Of Light: A Collection Of Poems

Source: A Candle Of Light: A Collection Of Poems

“Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.”

Homeless People Stereotyped Prejudices

Book:Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

Source: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“For most homeless women, then, jobs by themselves were not a way out of homelessness, even if one discounted the large number of women who were too old, too sick, or otherwise too disabled to work.”

Homeless People

Book:Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

Source: Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“When Jesus came to earth, though, he clearly preached a different message. He often communicated messages that went against how society and culture teach us to operate.”

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Book:I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People

Source: I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People

“Society inures us to acts of immorality and decadence. We passively accept violence and exploitation as part of the cultural normative. When the Wall Street Kings crashed their money mobile, Congress was quick to pass bailout bills. How many of these same Congressmen and Wall Street millionaires do you think ever reached into their pocket to buy a homeless person a sandwich?”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls