Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury Quotes

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

A change of mentality is needed, no longer seeing the poor as a burden, or as intruders trying to profit from others, but as people seeking to share the goods of the world so that we can create a just and prosperous world for all.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The rich must protect the poor just as clothes protect the body.

We should remember the poor.

The security of the Republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and ignorant; in indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

Unless we labor to help others achieve a reasonable stake in society, we may find ourselves losing the society in which we have too great a stake.

We’ve taken care not to penalize the wealthy but we have to redistribute some income …It is through reform that we can obtain fairness in the modern world…A reformed welfare state is the only way to obtain social justice.