If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Ending poverty is essential to preserving and expanding freedom.
- In plain terms
- You cannot have true freedom without ending poverty.
- What can you take from it?
- Fight poverty to protect liberty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is poverty the only barrier to freedom?
Another view
Some argue freedom can exist even with poverty.
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