The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.

—Mother Teresa

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Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

—Mother Teresa

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Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love.

—Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

—Mother Teresa

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

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