POVERTY IS MAN MADE - “For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. … Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse. ...One man to live in pleasure and wealth, while all others weep and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailer.”

                              The Tower of London

Sir Thomas More, 1478 – 1532, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII of England, author of 'Utopia', published in 1516. He was beheaded by Henry VIII in 1532. He could not accept Henry as head of the Church of England, nor Henry's disregard for the welfare of his subjects.

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