Poverty is the great moral issue facing America today, former U.S. senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a crowd of UW-Madison students.
The country is hungry for a big issue – a cause, a calling – it can get involved in, Edwards told about 500 people Wednesday afternoon at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
….”Americans are looking for something moral and just. Something other than this mess in Iraq we are engaged in,” he said to overwhelming applause.
“They need a champion. That champion is you,” Edwards said, noting that college students have spurred major change in the past, from civil rights to the Vietnam anti-war movement to helping topple the apartheid system in South Africa.