MissDubh's Musings: Seven and Eight

Quotes Lifted from one.org

"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ~Mother Teresa
"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." ~John F. Kennedy
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil." ~Robert Kennedy
"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." ~FDR
"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit." ~Eli Kharmarov
The US cannot win the war on terrorism unless we confront the social and political roots of poverty." ~Colin Powell
"Poverty is the worst form of violence." ~Gandhi