"The first question which the priest and Levite asked was: If I stop to help this man what will happen to me?
But the good Samaritan reversed the question: if I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
This tension between the demands of organised religion and the duty to love is well illustrated by Richard Rohr:
His (Jesus) hardest words of judgment were for those who perpetuated systems of inequality and repression and who, through religion itself, thought they were sinless and untouchable.
In the following quotation King gives expression to the expansion of the concept of love from direct help to a demand for systemic change.
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin at a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
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