MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of p…

Christopher Hitchens
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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. ✨ Mommie Dearest by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. October 20, 2003.
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