Pope Francis Quotes

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

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

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

Solidarity forever …. We stand outcast and starving from the wonders we have made.

Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this assembly.

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. And while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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

I would rather govern rich men than be rich myself; since for one man to abound in wealth and pleasure, when all about him are mourning and groaning, is to a jailer and not a king.

Charity and philanthropy are not justice.

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.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people without a voice or people who are oppressed.

It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

In a world of injustice there's going to be dreams of justice.

The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off our trust funds and we use those funds for our humanitarian missions. I do what I do because I can’t stand to see innocent people bullied by a corrupt government. I don’t want to see a baby starve and die because some fat politician wants to work its parents into the ground for a mineral most of them can’t even pronounce. (Devyn)

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.