The liberation of the poor is also God's own liberation from: 1. our ideas 2. our clutches 3. our prayers 4. ourneeds According to Goizueta, we erect all sorts of walls and barriers, both Visible and invisible, to protect and shield us from the most vulnerable people of our societies: the poor, the sick, the elderly, the homeless, the stranger, the alien, the downtrodden. We feel threatened by them because they remind us of what we'd rather forget: namely, that ultimately, we're all ________ (four words)