Tony Campolo Quotes

I believe that we have a duty to look frankly at the social conditions around us and to work to do what we can to address the specific needs which we find.

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

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

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

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

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

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

We've got to take care of the poor.

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

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

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

I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.

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

Part of the responsibility of government is to serve the needs of those that have the least among us.

We should remember the poor.

A New Dealer regrets poverty and deplores the fact that it is necessary for society to slough off its misfits as an individual sheds his impurities and his diseases. But New Dealers believe that human want and human distress should be prevented or at least ameliorated.

Maximum Feasible Participation of the Poor

… poor people deserve access to food, education, housing, and medical services

Let’s make the poor richer.

We used to wage war on poverty—not poor people.

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.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

Government becomes a burden only when it functions on behalf of the poor.

We are the wealthiest country in the world. There is no excuse not to help poor people….When was the last time you saw poverty mentioned on television.