Friday, September 6, 2019

THERE'S A BIG PROBLEM WHEN CHARITY IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE.









COMMENT:

"We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice."

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society, 1932









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