 | Donna L. Franklin - 2015 - 280 페이지
...dilemma, it has the greatest impact on the most vulnerable citizens. Samuel Johnson once observed that, "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." 6 By that gauge, how society provides for the most disadvantaged mothers and their children tells us... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 페이지
...him as "opposing the tide of history" will only distort his views7 The Johnson who proclaimed that "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization," and who struggled against capital punishment, slavery, and colonialism (which included the treatment... | |
 | J. V. S. Murty - 1998 - 234 페이지
...resources for watershed management. Affluent Advancement Appropriate Acceleration 8 APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY A Decent provision for the poor is the true test of Civilization — Samuel Johnson Government of India is stressing the need for accelerating economic growth rapidly... | |
 | Derek Curtis Bok - 1998 - 502 페이지
...responsibility which has not been reversed to this day. Helping the Poor Samuel Johnson once observed that "a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." 1 Such help has long had an honored place in American life, and even today countless people contribute... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 페이지
...appear largely to have escaped Hume's notice. It is doubtful that he would have agreed with Johnson that "a decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization" (Life of Johnson 2 : 1 30) . Yet for all their differences, Hume and Johnson share a central commitment... | |
 | Christie W. Kiefer - 2000 - 262 페이지
...the results? The Poor On CHAPTERS the Picture Tube The "Debates" on Welfare and Health Care Reform A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson (d.1784) The function of the state as the guardian of the public wellbeing assures... | |
 | Roxanne Rimstead - 2001 - 364 페이지
...with poverty and nation in the realm of moral philosophy, as reflected in Samuel Johnson's adage - 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization' - to later popular concerns for the reputation of Britain as Europe's first industrialized nation,... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 페이지
...begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." — Webster "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." — Samuel Johnson "The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members."... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2002 - 644 페이지
...implement the cure." It is a message he did not try to take to Miami's blacks. 8. The Non-Succeeders "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." — Samuel Johnson THERE WAS some deep athletic chatter behind me, on the plane. But it was not till... | |
 | Surjit S. Bhalla - 2002 - 292 페이지
...quotes Samuel Johnson, who very likely originated the first definition of the poverty line in 1770: "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. . . . The condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination."... | |
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... a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, he observed, were pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination. 
