The poor you will always have with you,' Jesus said. A warning, Emilio wondered, or an indictment?
Mary Doria RussellThe great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud.
Frances Hodgson BurnettMots clés inspirational-quotes suffering mercy quality charity succor
Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.
Amy TanMots clés love charity forgiving
We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.
Bill MaherMots clés america suffering charity
They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on.
We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to one.
We even do it in our own country. Barbara Ehrenreich's brilliant book Nickel and Dimed describes the impossibility of living with dignity or comfort as one of the millions of minimum-wage workers in fast food, aisle-stocking and table-waiting jobs. Their labor for next to nothing ensures that well-off people can be a little more pampered.
So if we do it to our own, what chance do foreigners have?
Mots clés hate suffering ignorance violence poverty charity irresponsible extremism third-world passive-aggressive poverty-and-politics
Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something you work at, something you build like a house or tend like a plant, brick by brick, drop by drop, day by day. Nonsense. Old wives' tales, old husbands' tales. That is affection they are talking about, that is companionship, that is charity, that is tickets for the Cancer Research Ball. You must ask the young if you want to know what love is. Only they are deep enough in it to describe. We older ones have clues and simulacra, we base our judgement, like pathologists do, on the dents and scars and sediments of hearts long kept in formaldehyde. It is the pulsing heart you want to probe: the pulsing, beating, leaping, dipping, fluttering heart of a seventeen-year-old.
A.P. .Mots clés love companionship affection sacrifice charity giving caring young-love
Everyone can choose to live with a golden heart, it is a privilege of loving truly.
Angelica HopesMots clés love charity reflections
Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.
Chieko N. OkazakiMots clés inspirational diversity charity
The more you give the less your poor
Benny BellamacinaMots clés wisdom life love philosophical life-and-living quote charity giving loving
Cultivate a passion for truth.
Pursue a life of charity.
Enjoy the beauty found in every day.
Mots clés inspirational truth beauty charity
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