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Aneurin Bevan on Poverty

1897–1960 Wales

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A free people will always refuse to put up with preventable poverty.

In Place of Fear (1952)

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

In Place of Fear (1952)

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

In Place of Fear (1952)

The issue therefore in a capitalist democracy resolves itself into this: either poverty will use democracy to win the struggle against property, or property, in fear of poverty, will destroy democracy.

In Place of Fear (1952)

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