"Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you...'Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.'"

Deuteronomy 15:11

"The earth was created for rich and poor in common. Nature knows no rich. She creates us all alike and alike she encloses in the sepulcher. What more resembles one dead man than another dead man?"

St. Ambrose