de-less-fortunates - why to halt and rethink
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much...it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
"The US cannot win the war on terrorism unless we confront the social and political roots of poverty."
"It's not about charity, it's about justice."
"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."
"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."