To put pressure upon the destitute for the sake of gain and to make a profit out of the need of another is condemned by all laws, human or divine.

Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) Italian Catholic pontiff (1878-1903) [b. Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci]

Rerum Novarum [On the Condition of Workers] (15 May 1891)