Compassion Quote by London Breed

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

— Miranda Devine

People are not homeless if they're sleeping in the streets of their own hometowns.

— Dan Quayle

Some people think you've chosen to sleep on the street. People don't choose to lose their jobs or suffer from mental health problems. The…

— James Bowen

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

— Dawn Foster

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools,…

— Charles Bukowski

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people…

— Neil Young

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They…

— Basil Hume

We appropriately compared the lifestyle to that of drug addiction and alcoholism - lifestyles that one would be encouraged to seek help to leave…

— Stephen Bennett

Homelessness can be complex, and some rough sleepers will refuse help when living on the street becomes entrenched. But fining people, confiscating tents, and…

— Dawn Foster

You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor…

— Elissa Schappell

Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is no single cause of homelessness, and vulnerable people, those with mental health problems and addictions for example, need support not punishment.

— Layla Moran