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Mother Teresa

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker calls it a kind of poverty to let a child die for the sake of living as one wishes. Here poverty is a moral judgment rather than a shortage of money. The force of the statement comes from placing personal preference against a child's life.

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