We see them trying to eliminate every ill, to remove every obstacle which offends man's dignity. They are continually striving to exercise greater personal responsibility; to do more, learn more, and have more so that they might increase their personal worth. And yet, at the same time, a large number of them live amid conditions which frustrate these legitimate desires.
Nostris hisce diebus dum homines id appetere videmus, ut exploratius inveniant quo alantur, quo aegroti curentur, quo firmiter occupati teneantur; ut ab omni vexatione tuti, ab omnique liberi deformitate, hominis dignitatem labefactante, maiora in dies de se praestare possint; ut se doctrina magis expoliant: hoc est, ut magis operentur, discant, possideant, ut ideo pluris valeant; interea magnam eorum partem videmus in eiusmodi vitae condicionibus versari, quae iustas eorum appetitiones frustrentur.vatican.va vatican.va