To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for ones own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. – Rowan D. Williams
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton
My youth passed at the time of the countrys reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. – Lech Walesa