Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Janet Poppendieck
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  1. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. - Mother Teresa

  2. Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. - Mother Teresa

  3. Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. - Horace Mann

  4. Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. - Marcus Aurelius

  5. Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people? You decide! - Anthony T. Hincks

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  1. By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

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

  3. Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

  4. We believe that only government has the capacity--not to mention the political and moral responsibility--to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

  5. Emergency food has become very useful indeed, and to a very large assortment of people and institutions. The United States Department of Agriculture uses it to reduce the accumulation of embarrassing agricultural surpluses. Business uses it to dispose of nonstandard or unwanted product, to protect...

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