And you may not know it, my friends, but it is estimated that we spend $500,000 to kill each enemy soldier, while we spend only fifty-three dollars for each person classified as poor, and much of that fifty-three dollars goes for salaries to people that are not poor. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor, and attack it as such.
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It seemed that there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the Poverty Program. There were experiments, hopes, and new beginnings. Then came the build-up in Vietnam. And I watched the program broken as if it was some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war.
They have money for war but can't feed the poor.
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the future of war.
The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.
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