“The one thing we want to make certain that America understands is that poverty is not a New Orleans problem or a Cleveland problem or a Pittsburg problem, it’s an American problem and America has the responsibility to do something about this. In a country of our wealth and our prosperity it is absolutely wrong, morally wrong, to have 37 million of our own people wake up every single day living in poverty. When we say one nation, indivisible, I believe that with my heart and soul. Everybody who lives in poverty, or in the shadows of poverty, or in fear of being in poverty, I want them to hear my voice and I want them to hear your voice and what I want them to know is: we see you, we hear you, we are with you, and we will not forget you.”

-- Sen. John Edwards in Prestonsburg, KY


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“The one thing we want to make certain that America understands is that poverty is not a New Orleans problem or a Cleveland problem or a Pittsburg problem, it’s an American problem and America has the responsibility to do something about this. In a country of our wealth and our prosperity it is absolutely wrong, morally wrong, to have 37 million of our own people wake up every single day living in poverty. When we say one nation, indivisible, I believe that with my heart and soul. Everybody who... (read more)