“Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)”

“Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality.”

“I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.”

“I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.”

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which as beggar is a reminder of nothing.”

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”