Miley Cyrus hands over VMA acceptance speech to young homeless man [photos]

@DLoesch yep … she never fails to shock, but this time with class, style, dignity & grace.

— CerebrumFloss (@CerebrumFloss) August 25, 2014

@DLoesch I know. Hard to be pissed at that. Pretty cool, and sad.

— Tim Tomlinson (@abnrgr1984) August 25, 2014

Winning the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year for “Wrecking Ball,” Miley Cyrus bypassed the twerking and handed her acceptance speech over to a young homeless man named Jesse.

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Standing ovation for Miley's date Jesse accepting her award on behalf of 1.6 million runaways & homeless youth in the US. Goosebumps.

— E! News (@enews) August 25, 2014

@kotorikat @media_exposed Do you mean this one where she had a homeless person accept the award on her behalf? http://t.co/UullPji4PE

— The Truth (@trutht103) August 25, 2014

"I'm accepting this award on behalf of the 1.6 million runaways and homeless youth in the United States who are starving, lost and scared."

— Cardenio (@gatosireno) August 25, 2014

.@MileyCyrus wins Video of the Year, uses her acceptance speech as a platform for homeless youth. #VMAs pic.twitter.com/3uOKg9YUtI

— Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) August 25, 2014

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God bless miley? pic.twitter.com/xHrc3Pkjm9

— Austin❤ (@UGirlForAustinM) August 25, 2014

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@etnow @MileyCyrus The best part of the 2014 VMAs

— Normylicious (@normy1224) August 25, 2014

A moment of true substance at this year's #VMAs as @MileyCyrus lets a homeless youth accept her award with a message of awareness.

— Mashable (@mashable) August 25, 2014

Miley Cyrus shocks #VMAs audience for all the right reasons. http://t.co/3LSRGe1EGf pic.twitter.com/u0dy2Y5itQ

— Mashable (@mashable) August 25, 2014

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