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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. -- Charles Dickens
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity. -- Sargent Shriver
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. -- Gary Hamel
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. -- James Weldon Johnson
Justice comes before charity. -- Pope John XXIII
Arbitration is justice blended with charity. -- Nachman of Breslov
Charity isn't a good substitute for justice. -- Jonathan Kozol
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. -- Saint Augustine
The source of justice is not vengeance but charity. -- Bridget of Sweden
Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice. -- Norman Bethune
Charity is only a waystation on the road to justice. -- William Sloane Coffin
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table. -- Bill Moyers
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. -- Henry George
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. -- Ralph Nader
Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice. -- Jacques Diouf
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. -- Nelson Mandela
Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values. -- Charles J. Chaput
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. -- John Calvin
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity. -- Pope Benedict XVI
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. -- Pope Pius XI
To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity. -- Pope Pius X
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves. -- John Tillotson
There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can. -- Vincent de Paul
The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion. -- Saul Alinsky
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. -- C. S. Lewis
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea. -- Edward de Bono
Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. -- Ronald Rolheiser
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . -- Edward de Bono

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