Pope Francis Quotes

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

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

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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

If you're the person whose problems were solved when you were born, your job is to try and help the people who aren't in that situation. It's very easy to say you're tired of political discussion when all of your problems are solved. I keep trying to think of it that way.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

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

Your poverty is my shame.

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.

With the poor people of this world I will cast my lot and share their fate.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.