Human beings, because of our dignity, have basic human rights. These rights include access to food, affordable housing, decent healthcare, education and a variety of things to ensure that we can live a full human life. These rights help us to protect our dignity in concrete ways. But these are not just our rights alone. They are the rights of every human being.
Beginning our discussion of the rights of man, we see that every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity, and to the means which are suitable for the proper development of life; these are primarily food, clothing, shelter, rest, medical care, and finally the necessary social services. Therefore a human being also has the right to security in cases of sickness, inability to work, widowhood, old age, unemployment, or in any other cases which he is deprived of the means of subsistence through no fault of his own. Pope John XXIII, Peace on Earth (Pacem in Terris), No. 11
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! "When will the new moon be over," you ask, "that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy the lowly man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!" The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done! Amos 8:4-7
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