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Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us. — Francis of Assisi
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. — Saint Augustine
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. — Alphonsus Liguori
These symbolize (Proverbs 30:14) the greedy and usurers whose teeth are swords and knifes which they use to devour the poor and steal their megger… — Anthony of Padua
O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to… — Pope Francis
Jesus tells us what the 'protocol' is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew's Gospel:… — Pope Francis
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor,… — Pope Francis
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention of communism and… — Pope Francis
The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,… — John of Kronstadt
Avarice is always poor. — Samuel Johnson
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the… — Thorstein Veblen
... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome - not opportunity,… — Noam Chomsky
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest… — Robert Burns
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person… — Adrian Rogers
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching. — P T Barnum
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from… — P T Barnum

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