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“We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.”

“Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.”

“Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .”

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Author:Barbara Stocking

“Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.”

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Author:James T. Walsh

“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.”

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Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.”

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Book:Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

“If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.”

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Book:Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just

Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just