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What does it mean?
In our time, every suffering person is called the miserable one regardless of location.
In plain terms
Poor people suffer everywhere in the world right now.
What can you take from it?
Poverty and suffering are global and universal.

Where it applies

  • social work
  • human rights advocacy
  • economic analysis

Putting it to work

  • campaigning for aid
  • writing about poverty

Questions to consider

  • Is poverty inevitable?
  • How do you help the miserable?

Another view

Conditions vary by region and time.

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