And people would become better
if they stopped trying to become better off.
For when everybody tried to become better off,
nobody is better off.
But when everybody tried to become better,
everybody is better off.
Everybody would be rich
if nobody tried to become richer.
And nobody would be poor
if everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what [they] ought to be
if everybody tried to be
what [they] want the other fellow to be.
Peter Maurin, a former Christian Brother, became mentor to Dorothy Day in New York as she founded the Catholic Worker movement. His poetry is designed to be easily memorized.
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