Tuesday 15, December 2009 by Mike Gallagher
Bank to basics
"The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for 'the least of these'" Those were the words of Martin Luther King's December 11, 1964 Nobel Lecture. Few men have spoken as compassionately about poverty and inequality as he.
