| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 44078 |
| QUOTATION: | Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Eva Perón (1919–1952), Argentinian government official, politician. Address, December 5, 1949, to the American Congress of Industrial Medicine. “My Labour in the Field of Social Aid.” |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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