Brigham Young: Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.1

Spencer W. Kimball: The measure of our love for our fellowman and, in a large sense, the measure of our love for the Lord, is what we do for one another and for the poor and distressed.2

Marion G. Romney: A Latter-day Saint should abhor poverty and do all in his power to alleviate it. He should remember the Lord's statement, "it is not given that one man should possess that which is above another" (D&C 49:20), and that in the Lord's plan "every man" is to be "equal according to his family, according to his circumstances and his wants and needs" (D&C 51:3).3

Thomas S. Monson: Today, in lands far away and right here in Salt Lake City, there are those who suffer hunger, who know want and are acquainted with poverty. Ours is the opportunity and the sacred privilege to relieve this hunger, to meet this want, to eliminate this poverty.4

Glenn L. Pace: We must reach out beyond the walls of our own church. In humanitarian work, as in other areas of the gospel,...[w]e need not wait for a call or an assignment from a Church leader before we become involved in activities that are best carried out on a community or individual basis.5

Hugh Nibley: The conditions of sharing demanded by the Lord can only be satisfied by complete equality, a point that is ceaselessly repeated.... We cannot be equal, as the Lord commands, and live on different levels of affluence.6

Eugene England: [O]ur government recently approved spending another $130 million to make our embassies in Asia more "secure" after all the terrorist bombings. But we have great trouble allocating that kind of money to solve the problems of poverty and homelessness that produce the terrorism. We strike at the branches of evil but never at the roots.7

Richard E. Johnson: [W]e might gain valuable insight by broadening the measure of morality beyond the traditional sins to include such variables as poverty, homelessness, and socioeconomic inequality. Perhaps the central moral problem of our time is primarily economic or materialistic, involving behavior that is more often than not perfectly legal and socially acceptable.8

NOTES
1.	Deseret News, 10 Dec. 1856, cited in Eugene England, Brother Brigham (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1980), 175.
2.	Spencer W. Kimball, "And the Lord Called His People Zion," Ensign (Aug. 1984): 2.
3.	Marion G. Romney, "Gospel Forum," Ensign (Jan. 1971): 16.
4.	Thomas S. Monson, "Goal beyond Victory," Ensign (Nov. 1988): 44.
5.	Glenn L. Pace, "A Thousand Times," Ensign (Nov. 1990): 10.
6.	Hugh Nibley, Approaching Zion, ed. Don E. Norton (Salt Lake City & Provo: Deseret Book, FARMS, 1989), 397-398.
7.	Eugene England, "Fasting and Food, Not Weapons: A Mormon Response To Conflict," BYU Studies 25 (Winter 1985): 151.
8.	Richard E. Johnson, "No Poor among Us?", Women Steadfast in Christ, ed. Dawn Hall Anderson & Marie Cornwall, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992), 166.