Writings
You Know, Mom, I Really Love You!
When I recall the little boy who told me one day,
“You know, I really love my mother,”
I don’t think the (…) Read more
The Whole Family Was Afraid
I hadn’t seen Jack, Nicholas, or their family
since they left the emergency housing camp in Noisy-le-Grand
five years ago.
Even though I (…) Read more
A Sister’s Love
An Extract from “Tomorrow Will Be Different” ( Paroles pour demain)
documents
A Sister’s Love
People’s Initiatives in Banglades hand Insights for Poverty and Development Discourse
Tribute to Wresinski. A written contribution to the international colloquium “Exclusion, a Challenge to Democracy. How relevant is Joseph Wresinski’s (…) Read more
The Fourth World and Non-Violence
Translation of “Quart Monde et non-violence”
Public lecture given by Fr. Joseph Wresinski on August 31st 1984, during the tenth session (…) Read more
A Human Rights Conceptualisation of Poverty
One of Joseph Wresinski’s most important legacies is, I believe, the growing influence of what I call a human rights (…) Read more
The Violence Done To The Poor
This text, published in 1968 in the Revue Igloos/Le Quart Monde, was written in the context of the often violent (…) Read more
Why Choose Poverty?
How do we justify volunteers’ poverty? In our Western civilization, poverty has not been valued as something good in and (…) Read more
A Knowledge That Leads to Action
In December 1980 Joseph Wresinski brought together an international committee of specialists at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The text (…) Read more