The question of poverty in all of this is implicit, metaphorical and heavily sanitised: there are no other people, for one.
He then moved on to the question of poverty and disease.
This is a fantastic one-two call to action on the question of poverty today.
They didn't just exhort us; they re-framed the question of poverty, and the image of the poor and working poor themselves.
Some said he needed to draw the same attention to violence in his hometown and to the complicated urban questions of poverty, joblessness and gangs that he had given earlier to the mass shootings in Connecticut and elsewhere.
"Beyond that frontier," he said, "are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus".
"A New Frontier, as my brother said, where there were 'unsolved problems, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.' " Speaking of his brother, Mr. Kennedy said, "How proud he would be of Al Gore and our party and the new barrier of bigotry we are breaking down with the choice of Joe Lieberman as the next vice president of the United States".
The long, strange trip was a ten-day journey to Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, and Ethiopia, in a United States government airplane, ostensibly to study questions of poverty and development and, maybe, to see whose ideas on the subject make more sense, the Cabinet secretary's or the rock star's.
Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus".
And it is now particularly consumed by questions of poverty eradication - the result of the mandates from the continuum of United Nations conferences on various aspects of development in the first half of this decade.
The Christian community's response to the questions of property, poverty, and the poor may be sketched in terms of four major perspectives, which have historically overlapped and sometimes coexisted in mutuality or contradiction.
