Reverend Avery: In fact, what happened to Dorothy's ex-husband is not that uncommon.
Rose: Really?
Reverend Avery: You'd be surprised how many people are only two or three paychecks away from being on the street. The suddenly poor are all around us. And once you've been knocked down like that, it's very hard to recover.
Dorothy: What's going to happen to all these people?
Reverend Avery: I don't know. There's no affordable housing, the rents keep going up and up, and the minimum wage has been held down.
Rose: Seems so unfair.
Reverend Avery: Well, that's because it is. There are three million homeless, hungry people in this country.
Blanche: What bothers me is, those people out there are being fed today because it's Christmas, but what will they eat tomorrow?
Reverend Avery: When the great communicator talked about his vision of a city on a hill, I wonder if it included people sleeping on gratings in the street.