"Some people don't believe in helping the poor. They think that the poor are poor by choice,
that they've decided not to work and shouldn't complain when they suffer. And while
that might be true on occasion, a woman collecting cow dung in Delhi works every bit as
hard as the president of a huge company....The people who say such things have never
scooped up cow dung, have never seen their children go hungry. They haven't suffered,
and they never really stop and think about what causes suffering, about how
we're all the same, but how some are born into better worlds than others."
**~~excerpt from The Wishing Trees by John Shors