If ever you needed an invitation to sign the Zero Poverty campaign here is one from literary lion Victor Hugo.
“I am one of those who think and say that it is possible to destroy extreme poverty. Mark you, gentlemen, I am not saying ‘reduce’,‘lessen’, ‘limit’, ‘control’, I said destroy. Poverty is a disease of society such as leprosy was a disease of the human body, and can be eliminated just as leprosy has disappeared. Yes, it is possible. Legislators and policymakers must think about it constantly, for as long as the possible is not done, our duty will never be fulfilled.”
Victor Hugo, Speech to Legislative Assembly, 9 July 1849 (Chapeau to Oxfam’s Duncan Green)
