"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
“People living in poverty and with sickness deserve something better than what they’ve been offered, which is the sharp end of a stick.”
"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. "
"Poverty is not a fate, it is a condition; It is not a misfortune, it is an injustice."
“The opposite of poverty isn't property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community ... So let us discover our wealth; let us discover our solidarity; let us build up communities; let us take our lives into our own hands, and at long last out of the hands of the people who want to dominate and exploit us.”
"The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor."
"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."
“The world has never lacked for horrifying examples; but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.”