This is what the LORD Almighty said: “Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.”

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

"Whoever of you see a wrong, he should change it with his hand; and if he cannot do that [he should change it] with his tongue…”

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?

My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, Lord? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

“...be kind to your relatives, and acknowledge the rights of the poor, neighbors and beggars.”

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to raise the conscience of the nation.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.

Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold binds, consumes, and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.

God commands justice and fair dealing…

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward.

"A believer wants for his brother what he wants for himself."

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter — when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

It is not enough for believers to uphold justice themselves: they are expected to be its standard-bearers. They are supposed not merely to practice justice in their own dealings but to strive for its triumph. They have to do all within their power to ensure that injustice is eradicated and replaced by equity and justice.

Housing is actually a human right, and so it is therefore unjust to refuse housing to people based on their income level.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.