Janet Poppendieck quotes
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“Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.”
-- Janet PoppendieckSource : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin
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“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.”
-- Janet PoppendieckSource : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.231, Penguin
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“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.”
-- Janet PoppendieckSource : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.305, Penguin
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“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy”
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“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”
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“Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.”
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“True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.”
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“A large heart can be filled with very little.”
Source : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
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