"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."
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"Opportunity is the greatest charity."
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"URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages."
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"We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity."
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"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place."
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"In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can."
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"Charity begins at home."
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"Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good."
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"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
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"Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways."
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"Christian life consists of faith and charity"
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"As far as Martin [Luther] himself is concerned, O good God, what have we overlooked or not done? What fatherly charity have we omitted that we might call him back from such errors?"
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"If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity."
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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt."
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"The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins."
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"The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little."
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"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
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"Against the charitable gesture there is no defence."
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"[L]ove is inventive to infinity."
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