Acts of kindness Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable,…

— Bill Moyers

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

— Anonymous

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

— Norman Bethune

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

— Vincent de Paul

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the…

— Anonymous

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding…

— Muhammad Yunus

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

— Pope Pius X

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

— Nelson Mandela

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

— Ralph Nader