This quote is attributed to “Anonymous”-Can anyone find out who actually said it?
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
I hear “Mark Twain” is the catch-all pen name for “Some Guy on the Internet”.
Not quite true, Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill and to a lesser extent Jefferson are also the very common misattributed candidates.
Don’t forget Jonathan Swift!
Google NGrams has nothing for any significant portion of this quote - searching for smaller fragments, we get ‘Poverty exists not because there isn’t enough wealth in the world , but because it is inequitably distributed’ (the same kind of sentiment in different words) from here
That’s the best I can find
The person speaking was Martin M. McLaughlin with the Overseas Development Council. In June of 1980. Thanks for the link!
Bravo, bravissimo!
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