"Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgement at how they carry it. "
"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."
"The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets."
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."