If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no … - Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?

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