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◆ If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

- Stephen Colbert100

◆ I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

- Jack D. Forbes99

◆ The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

- Jean Vanier99

◆ I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

- Charles Bukowski99

◆ It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

- Thomas Aquinas99

◆ Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.

- Muhammad Yunus99

◆ The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I've given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there's a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.

- Aaron B. Powell99

◆ Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

- Glen Cook99

◆ The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

- Dorothy Day99

◆ How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That's what things look like in our cities at present

- Robert Walser99

◆ Expensive clothing is a poor man's attempt to appear prosperous.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana99

◆ Naten s'kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

- Keith Haring99

◆ Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

- Henry David Thoreau99