destitution

"We are asking for quality of life - nothing more, nothing less. Do not leave millions of us in destitution," he added.

“EPA needs to pursue commonsense regulation to Power the Great American Comeback, not continue down the last administration’s path of destruction and destitution,” the agency’s top administrator, Lee Zeldin, said in a statement last week.

"Ultimately, if you're charging patients and pushing them more into ill health and into destitution, the costs from any perspective will be greater in the long run."

No provisions for the poor were to be provided, for destitution was demanded to drive inferior people to productivity.

"We all know his story and his message. These acts profoundly change the way we regard this man, who was known above all for his struggle against poverty, destitution and exclusion."