Members of the white, male, middle-class world are ready enough to recognize the need for the poor in the Third World to be liberated, but are not prepared to see themselves as accomplices of the forces that have oppressed them. They show good will by contributing to development aid projects, disaster funds and so forth, but avoid painful insights into the unjust structures of their own world. It is easy to be liberal where it doesn't cost too much; and through this very attitude we waste the chances for our own liberation from structures incompatible with human dignity, a liberation which would free us for community with the people in the countries of the Third World.
— Jurgen Moltmann, Experiences in Theology