As is so often the case this is via Sojourners:
We need always to be thinking and writing about [poverty], for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us.
—Dorothy Day, from her book, Loaves and Fishes
I find myself often thinking or writing about poverty in part because we have so many who come to the church office seeking assistance. The reality of poverty would fade from me if it were not continuously forced upon me simply because I don’t want to know about it. I do not want the disruption my Christian duty to the poor imposes upon me. The truth is that even if the person in front of me is “undeserving” of my help, then I have a duty to introduce to the truth of Jesus Christ and help them get straightened out to a place where they are “deserving.” So far from having no responsibility to the “undeserving” I have an even greater responsibility.