Dorothea Dix Quotes

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

I went to India with UNICEF in connection with Manchester United to raise money for children's education.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to charity?

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

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.

I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want; but to see also that they are faithfully distributed and duly apportioned to the respective wants of those receivers.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very interesting guy who would literally rent a passenger van and would take the poor kids from the ghettos and black neighborhoods down to the sporting goods store and just spend money. Buy them whatever they want.

I care a lot about animal welfare and children. Although I don't have children myself.

In many respects Angie saved Zahara's life and there are so many more children whose lives she could save and she talks about that constantly.

Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate.

Coming from a Haitian-American home, I thought it was necessary to give back to the country in which my parents were raised. That is why I believe in Project PlayWorld's efforts to to provide secure playing spaces for the children of Haiti with the Live Civil Playground.

I had always sponsored children. At fifteen, I had sponsored two girls through Plan International.