“How are they supposed to ‘go and find out’ if they are starving, Witness Amita? How are they to devote themselves to what the church tells them they should be devoted to if all their time and attention and energy is devoted to basic survival? Are the poor excluded from holiness, Witness Amita? Will a mother of twelve children be turned away from the gates of Felicity because she learned nothing but how to love her family until she died of overwork?”
