David Weldon: “He did some of it right here in Washington DC; that is right. And one of the things he was amazed at, and I heard him…”

“He did some of it right here in Washington DC; that is right. And one of the things he was amazed at, and I heard him, he not only talks about this in the book, I heard him speak. Nobody would ask him why he was homeless. Nobody would ask him what his name was even or if he had a family. They would give him a meal, they would give him clothes, they would help him to get to the shelter, but they would never personally get involved in his life. And he compared that to what went on at the turn of the century when we were more effectively dealing with many of these problems and how they did that, they actually spoke into the peoples' lives, they got to know them. I think what it really boils down to is whether charity is being performed by the church or by the faith-based organizations or by the bureaucracy in Washington, the government, the faceless, heartless, bloodless bureaucracy that just dishes out checks or units in the complex, and it is that human intervention that really changes people.”