Our poor people are great people, a very lovable people, They don't need our pity and sympathy. They need our understanding love and they need our respect. We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us that they, too, have been created, by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved.

Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta (ed. Image, 2007) - ISBN: 9780385524209