“For the wound of poverty to be soothed, it's inadequate to undo the material disadvantage inflicted by the original blow: it is also necessary to reach out and lead the wounded person back into the human family.”

— John Waters (columnist)

Power and poverty: two extremes of existence going head to head http://www.independent.ie/opinion/power-and-poverty-two-extremes-of-existence-going-head-to-head-30567525.html (2014)

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