Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Quotes
By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, 1879–1973, Indian Dravidian social activist & politician, Founder of Dravidar Kazhagam., Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar E.V.R., 2005
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The Pool Laws provided economic and food relief for the very poor—an early type of welfare. Malthus and other conservatives hated the Poor Laws, but many like Malthus felt it immoral to terminate what was then the only social safety net. And none of the critics could suggest anything better and especially anything that would eliminate poverty altogether. The same issues were to be fought out in America during the Hoover Administration when the Great Depression struck. Hoover’s refusal for government to be the social safety net together with his inability to improve the economy, led to his ousting and the establishment of the New Deal with FDR.
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Erode Venkatappa Ramasamy, commonly known as Periyar or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. He is known as the 'Father of the Dravidian movement'. He rebelled against Brahminical dominance and gender and caste inequality in Tamil Nadu.
