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The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo Charity Justice Poverty

If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the ways in which it leads to suffering, only reinforces capitalist realism. Poverty, famine and war can be presented as an inevitable part of reality, while the hope that these forms of suffering could be eliminated easily painted as naive utopianism. Capitalist realism can only be threatened if it is shown to be in some way inconsistent or untenable; if, that is to say, capitalism's ostensible 'realism' turns out to be nothing of the sort.

~ Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher Capitalism Capitalist Realism Charity Poverty Utopianism

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.

~ Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Charity Love Poverty

Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.

~ Francis De Sales

Francis De Sales Charity God Possessions Poverty

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to them as we can. If we really did attempt to return to them, we would find Moses as well as Christ, Calvin, and his legions of intellectual heirs. And we would find a recurrent, passionate, insistence on bounty or liberality, mercy and liberality, on being kind and liberal, liberal and bountiful, and enjoying the great blessings God has promised to liberality to the poor.

~ Marilynne Robinson

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God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again than out of the ninety and nine who had the good sense not to get lost in the first place. God is the eccentric host who, when the country-club crowd all turned out to have other things more important to do than come live it up with him, goes out into the skid rows and soup kitchens and charity wards and brings home a freak show. The man with no legs who sells shoelaces at the corner. The old woman in the moth-eaten fur coat who makes her daily rounds of the garbage cans. The old wino with his pint in a brown paper bag. The pusher, the whore, the village idiot who stands at the blinker light waving his hand as the cars go by. They are seated at the damask-laid table in the great hall. The candles are all lit and the champagne glasses filled. At a sign from the host, the musicians in their gallery strike up Amazing Grace.

~ Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner Banquet Charity Freak God Grace Host Sheep Shepherd

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Charity Evil Fun Life Piety Play Transcendence Vigilance

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Caring Charity Empathy Enduring Experience Helping Helping Others Reaching Out Richelle Richelle E Goodrich Richelle Goodrich Sympathy Understanding Understanding Others

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Action Activist Charity Conservation Earth Feeling Heartless Hell To Well Mankind Reaching Out Self Asborbed Self Focus Service Stewards Tolerance Wellness Wrong Goals

Hebrew word for charity tzedakah, simply means justice and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

~ Peter Singer

Peter Singer Charity Hebrew Justice Language Poor

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

~ Janet Poppendieck

Janet Poppendieck Charity Culture Social Inequality

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu, the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Charity Ignorance

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

~ Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda Charity Education God Ignorance Religion Self Realization Spirituality

The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?

~ Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell Bible Charity

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior Ambition Charity Emotions Honor Longsuffering Meekness Peace Pride Religion Truth

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed.

~ Émile Zola

Émile Zola Alms Charity Justice

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!

~ Émile Zola

Émile Zola Catholicism Charity Justice Utopian Dreams

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft Charity Justice

I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Jacqueline Novogratz Charity Generosity Justice Poor

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

~ Rachel Held Evans

Rachel Held Evans Charity Exploitation Justice Life Style Sustainability

The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

~ Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank Charity Falsehood Justice Love Odor Sanctimony Truth

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

~ William Hutton

William Hutton Charity Good Pride

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

~ Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali Charity Generosity Good Goodness Help Muhammad Ali Soul

Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray Appreciate Charity Cheerfulness Contented Spirit Humility Loving Disposition Pure Heart

Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.

~ Francis De Sales

Francis De Sales Charity Humility Purity

Little deeds that proceed from charity please God and have their place among meritorious acts.

~ Francis De Sales

Francis De Sales Charity God Humility

You don’t go to church to find God, you bring him with you—attitude.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Attitude Charity Positivity Selflessness Service

Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.

~ William George Jordan

William George Jordan Charity Gratitude Ingratitude

The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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​Whatever we are given is supposed to be given away, not kept.

~ Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer Changing Perspectives Charity Giving Greed Perspective

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

~ Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry Charity Home

Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.

~ Charlie Caruso

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Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

~ Francis De Sales

Francis De Sales Charity Earth Heaven Love

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice of hospitality and charity amongst each other, and above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence, respect, and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a civilized people – then the Hindus are not inferior to the nations of Europe, and if civilization is to become an article of trade between England and India, I am convinced that England will gain by the import cargo.

~ Thomas Munro

Thomas Munro Agriculture Arithmetic Charity Convenience Delicacy England Europe Hinduism Hindus Hospitality India Luxury Reading Respect Schools Science Skill Writing

Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

~ Andrè Michael Pietroschek

Andrè Michael Pietroschek Author Charity Hard Lessons Life Modesty Streetwise Wisdom Writer

Hide your good actions as you would your bad.

~ Zarina Bibi

Zarina Bibi Charity Deeds Islam

I dreamed my shoulders held up the sky for a thousand hawks that squawked and cawed and beat their feathered wings against the hotness of the day. I supported their flight, watching and marveling, until sweat dripped from my body, and groans crossed my lips over fatiguing muscles. Choosing to let the sky fall, I awoke. My eyes opened to a cast of hawks gripping me in their talons. They supported my weight, hauling me high above the clouds through a blue expanse of heaven. And though they struggled—squawking and flapping wearily—never once did a single bird release its hold.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Charity Falsification Greedy Help Helping Hand Helping Others Needy Poor Pretend Richelle Richelle E Goodrich Richelle Goodrich Share Sharing Spite

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Richelle E. Goodrich Altruism Benevolence Charity Generosity Giving Greed Helping Richelle Richelle Goodrich Selfish Selfishism Selfishness
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