“To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor…it’s nothing.” — Bono
“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. ” — Bryan Stevenson
“To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.” — Jean Vanier
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” — Mother Teresa
“The Bible insists that the best test of a nation’s righteousness is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst.” — Jim Wallis
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.” — Mother Teresa
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.” — Mahatma Gandhi
There are about 200 million people in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.”—Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
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