We need always to be thinking and writing about poverty, for if we are not among its victims, its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

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As quoted in Lucchetti Bingemer, Maria Clara (2013) "The Witness of Dorothy Day and the Future of Liberation Theology," Diálogo: Vol. 16: No. 2, Article 3. Available at: via.library.depaul.edu

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