February 19, 2016

A boy writes on a blackboard at a school for orphans run by the Sisters of Mercy in Plaisance, Guyana, March 2015. (CNS photo / Bob Roller)

"With exclusion and inequality on the rise, we must step up efforts to ensure that all people, without discrimination, are able to access opportunities to improve their lives and those of others."

- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, from his message for United Nations World Day of Social Justice, which is February 20

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