Pope Francis Quotes About Labor

• I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Caring, Giving

• How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Men, Slave Labor

• I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Blessed, Gay

  "Church Should Apologize To Gays, Pope Francis Says". The Pope’s Press Conference on Flight from Armenia, www.npr.org. June 27, 2016.

• Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

  Pope Francis

  Earth, Fruit, Moral

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.40, Orbis Books

• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

  Pope Francis

  Stress, Dignity Of Work, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

• I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

  Pope Francis

  Strong, Heart, Safety

  Pope Francis @franciscus, www.instagram.com. April 28, 2016.

• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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