Tag: U.S.A: Abolition of Poverty

NOVANEWS Leaders of March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom marching with signs (R-L) Rabbi Joachim Prinz, unident., Eugene Carson Blake, Martin Luther King, Floyd McKissick, Matthew Ahmann & John Lewis.ROBERT W. KELLEY / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY IMAGES BY: William C. Anderson, As long as what’s called “Western civilization” has existed, people have been punished for being poor. This isn’t something the Western world invented, but it’s been a consistent characteristic of it. In Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. … The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct, and immediate abolition of poverty.” Through this call to abolish poverty, K...