Charity .. . is the opium of the privileged.

Chinua Achebe
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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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  2. When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

  3. Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola, " he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest....

  4. Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

  5. Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

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