By globalization we totally lose contact with the poor that we know personally. We work in the abstract toward the liberation of a social category that we never meet. We know the political leaders of this class, who are no longer poor themselves. And this globalization, this de-personalization of the poor, surely means that a person who is poor simply because he is sick or is mourning the loss of a loved one or has been humiliated by a failure in life arouses no interest. — Jacques Ellul
Daily Manna
America has become a Linus nation . . . always searching for our security blanket. . . . There is nothing more dangerous than a powerful nation that is afraid. — Methodist Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker