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“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source: The world is learning compassion

“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”

“Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.”

Men Earth Found Natural Poor Charity Hungry Bread Naked Redemption Clothings Sustenance

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.”

Ifs Men Made Earth Law Father Given Nations White Race Blood Changed Broken Empty Regard Seeds Hungry Chosen Spots Penalties White Man Covenant Cain Ordinances Hungry Man African Race

Author:Brigham Young

“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.”

Thinking Earth Tree Sweet Mouths Lovely Hungry Forests Breasts Breastfeeding Forests And Trees Nature's Beauty Arbor Day Inspirational Tree

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

Children Earth Night Poor Morning Rich Groups Streets Flower Grew Healthy Appearance Hungry Naked Dirty Dirt Nourishment Faded

Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories