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A nation invested in ending poverty is a nation that is truly, obsessively committed to freedom.

In Chapter 9: Tear Down the Walls, Desmond makes a case for the broad changes to American life he believes could end poverty. While these changes involve some level of sacrifice by the affluent, Desmond argues that these changes would improve life for them as well as for poor people. A more economically equal nation would also be more free because everyone would be free from the fear of poverty and the desperate conditions it creates. Desmond also asserts that crime rates would decrease and that the country would in general be a stronger community, united by a common goal of mutual prosperity.

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