What's that quote about a country only being as good as how it cares for its neediest?

[proud2BlibKansan]

Can't remember exactly and can't find it on a search. I know I have seen it posted here several times.

Thanks!

[Fumesucker]

1. "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

[tibbiit]

2. I think jesus said something about

Knowing how a person is by how they treat the least among them.

[redwitch]

3. Mr Ghandi What do you think of western civilization?

"I think it would be a good thing".

[redwitch]

4. Is this it?

"A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Ghandi

[redwitch]

5. Or this?

"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. JFK quote

ohn F. Kennedy - Inaugural address, January 20, 1961


- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.