When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

Nothing important happens in life without a cost.

What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.