When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24)

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.