Tupac Shakur Quotes

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.

The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.