Against Quote by Benjamin Todd Jealous

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

— Barack Obama

“We're called to speak to people to whom we often don't feel like speaking; to refrain from surrounding ourselves with people "just like us,"…

— Heather King

One of the things that pains me is we have so tragically underestimated the trauma, the hardship we create in this country when we…

— Bryan Stevenson

Service of the poor has to be every heart's desire and it will always throw us amongst the poor and enable us to identify…

— Senoraroy

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the…

— Don Cheadle

This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have…

— Faye Wattleton

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

— James Cook

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

— Cornel West

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and…

— Bill McKibben

We've got to take care of the poor.

— Bob Riley

Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

— Karl Popper

The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little…

— Cornel West