“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and the subdued – considered life’s “rejects” and “bums” and “failures” – to extending their hands in trembling need. As such, true generosity lies not in placing a pittance therein of finances or sustenance, but rather in striving to make it so that these hands – whether of individuals or entire peoples – need be extended less and less in supplication; that more and more they can become the hands which themselves give and work and serve, and thereby transform the world.” ~ via Paulo Freire

 

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