compassion for the marginalized Quotes

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless.

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

Jesus hung out with ragamuffins.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.