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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it accumulated over the course of one historical process that has devastated the societies and cultures of four continents.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.