"Even though you disinherit me or turn me off with a penny, my mind is made up, and my duty's clear.
"While things like these are going on in the world, outside, I have no right to linger and to idle here.

I am no child, now; I have been thinking of late, reading, learning.

Though I can't see it all clearly, yet, I know that every bite we eat, means deprivation to some other people, somewhere.

This light and luxury mean poverty and darkness elsewhere.

This fruit, this wine, this very bread is ours because some obscure and unknown men have toiled and sweat and given them to us.