“I have been trying all my life to stretch out my arms so as to reach with one hand the poor, and at the same time keep the other in touch with the rich. But my arms are not long enough. I find that when I am in touch with the poor I lose my hold upon the rich, and when I reach up to the rich I let go of the poor.”
General William Booth (1829-1912), Founder of the Salvation Army, as quoted by Harold Begbie in The Life of General William Booth: the Founder of the Salvation Army volume 1 (New York: MacMillen, 1920) 355.