Who are our Samaritans?

"Jesus makes his message more powerful by using a Samaritan as the example of love.  It's useful to ask ourselves who are our Samaritans: the people we consider somehow inferior, the people we want nothing to do with, the people we would never expect to do anything good.  Abortion advocates?  Gays?  Homophobes?  Illegal aliens?  Muslims?  Anybody else?  We need to see them all as neighbors."

(Deacon Joe Whipple, Archdiocese of Boston)