The poor have to help the poor because the ones who make the money are helping the people with money

chris hedges...

[W]omen and men who rise up in the pockets of poverty and despair ... resist not because they will succeed in reversing the corporate onslaught against them, or even save themselves or their communities from poverty, but because it is right. They wake each day to defy, often in small, unseen acts of revolt, the intractable poverty, the despair and violence, by nurturing life. They often can do little to protect the lives, especially the lives of children, that are daily crushed and destroyed. But they refuse to bow before the forces of oppression or neglect. And in that defiance they achieve grandeur.

the above is just a small excerpt and omits the very personal and moving story in which chris hedges documents the hard life of one woman on the mean streets of camden, new jersey...

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