Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not fro…

Leo Tolstoy
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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man. ✨ Harvey Carr, George Williams Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth (Gifford) Peckham, John Knight Munro Berry, William Warner Bishop (1887). Pamphlets in philology and the humanities
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