Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.