Because the Root of Poverty Is Injustice

July 10, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Bastille Day, which is celebrated on July 14.

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A Bastille Day poem arguing against the assumption that poverty is inevitable:

Because the root of poverty is injustice,

And there is wealth enough for all to have

Sustenance and shelter, and the promise

That all will prosper if they work and save;

Indeed, because those then have fewer children,

Leaving each more room in which to grow,

Leveraging lives through education,

Elevating lives by what they know:

Do not succumb to comfortable despair,

And think the poor, like flies, are simply there,

Yielding what might be to what seems so.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Bastille Day

7/8: Brace Yourself for Love, for It Is Coming

7/9: Beware of Power Absolute, Unshared

7/10: Because the Root of Poverty Is Injustice