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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2014-01-15

'Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? Even deserts can be irrigated and top soil can be replaced. We cannot complain of a lack of land, for there are twenty-five million square miles of tillable land, of which we are using less than seven million. We have amazing knowledge of vitamins, nutrition, the chemistry of food, and the versatility of atoms. There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will. The well-off and the secure have too often become indifferent and oblivious to the poverty and deprivation in their midst. The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds, and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.' -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1929-01-15, d. 1968-04-04)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 07:19pm on 2014-01-15
Well said, Reverend. I wonder how many of the conservatives who like to quote him remember he said this (or how many of the liberals for that matter).

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