"We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived."

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The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they are extremely vulnerable to even small upsets in their income or in the prices they face of basic necessities, and when something like this happens, they can be thrown off kilter in terms of a disease of a family member or a change in food prices; anything like that can throw them into destitution.

— Thomas Pogge