“By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty”

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

In Collected works of Periyar E.V.R. http://books.google.co.in/books?id=7iFuAAAAMAAJ, p. 489.
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