• It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 51 votes · 113 reads

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• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 127 reads

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• Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -the rest will be given.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 186 reads

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• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 146 reads

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• Slow help is no help.

  

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  Anonymous

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• The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 171 reads

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• The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 181 reads

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• The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 44 reads

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• There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 200 reads

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• These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 2 reads

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• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 101 reads

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• To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 108 reads

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• We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 48 reads

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• Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 146 reads

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• Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 101 reads

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• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 93 reads

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