National Homeless Persons' Remembrance Day is commemorated every year on Dec. 21 to honor those who died homeless the previous year.

National Homeless Persons' Remembrance day is also an occasion to drive attention to the causes and solutions to homelessness. On this day, it is important to remember that people who are leading a homeless life also deserve to be treated with dignity and respect like any other human being.

Following are some quotes from Brainy Quote and OFHSoupkitchen that will help you understand the gravity of the issue and motivate you to fight for the cause:

  1. "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
  2. "There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help."-Jan Schakowsky
  3. "The homeless often feel invisible, allowed to plummet through widening holes in the social safety net, then hidden in doorways from which people avert their eyes."-Dawn Foster
  4. "Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society."-Frank Dillane
  5. "Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story."-Ron Hall
  6. "It takes a society to combat homelessness, and a strong nation to fight poverty" – Wayne Chirisa
  7. "Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."– Munia Khan
  8. "Homeless exist because billionaires exist. In polarity, there is extreme poverty and extreme wealth. Bridge the gap between the two and you will find balance and an earth that will survive the threat of humanity's self-imposed climate change. Earth is a reflection of humanity." – Deborah Bravandt
  9. "People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes." – Sheila McKechnie
  10. "We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy." – Raheem De Vaughn
A homeless man sits on a curb along a street, in Beirut
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