23. Social responsibility

The individual and the community

Work and economic affairs

23.69

Unemployment is in truth an astonishing evil and calm acquiescence therein is discreditable... The stoic endurance of privation in times of shortage is noble, but poverty caused by enforced idleness, and in the presence of plenty, is so glaring an injustice that no man should accept it tamely.

Shipley N Brayshaw, 1933


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