America is going to hell if we don’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
By Marian Wright Edelman
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They have become great and rich
they have grown fat and sleek. …
they judge not with justice
the cause of their fatherless …
and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
—Jeremiah 5:27–28
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood for the good or evil side;
Some great Cause, God’s New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever ’twixt that darkness and that light.
—James Russell Lowell