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...higher body, the European Union. And said, we'll be more effective if we work together. We're different countries. We speak different languages. We have different backgrounds. We have different traditions. We've even been at war with each other at times, but we share a common pool of values: democracy, human rights, belief in the peaceful resolution of conflict, social cohesion and now, of course, the idea of a green economy. If we share these values, we can work together. And I think that means also regulating things: markets, our deficits, our economies...
...Never again should a people starve in a world of plenty.” This is the inscription on the little-noticed memorial to the Irish Potato Famine in Cambridge Common. Although the tragedy was over 150 years ago, its legacy is with us to this day. Though we do not know great famine in this country, we know homelessness, abject poverty, and the misery and suffering which accompany them. In this country and in this city, people still feel the aches of hunger, want, and fear. To change this course of poverty and homelessness we must first...
...hard to find homeless men and women in Cambridge, as most Harvard students can attest. They sleep in front of the Coop and in Cambridge Common. They dot the stretch of Mass. Ave. in front of the yard and crowd Harvard Square. To some extent, the presence of homelessness and poverty in Cambridge is a far more jarring realization than elsewhere. Quite literally in the shadows of the world’s richest and most reputable university, human beings go hungry and live on the streets...
...this vein it would be hypocritical not to try and alleviate suffering in our college community during the course of our four years here. Even in the midst of great economic trials, we must all strive to move society closer to a day when the inscription on the Common memorial can be taken in truth, and people will never again starve, suffer, or want in a world of plenty...
Kozak said that he also planned to light candles in front of the plaques of two Polish heroes in Cambridge Common...