That world of the poor, we say, is the key to understanding the Christian faith …the poor are the ones who tell us what the world is and what service the church must offer to the world.
Oscar Romero
 
 Americans are wondering what's happened to their government. They are working hard to raise strong families and to live the American dream. But with each passing day, they find the American dream farther and farther out of reach as they struggle just to make ends meet....working families don't ask for much.  Low and middle-income families are doing their part. But they could use a little fair play from their government as they are facing such hard times.
Senator Edward Kennedy
 
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether an economic system is functioning justly.
John Paul II
 
There has never been but one question in all civilization – how to keep a few men from saying to many men: “You work and earn bread and we will eat it.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
A job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
Holly Sklar and Paul Sherry
 
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
Martin Luther King, Jr.