“As for charity, it is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960) American financier and philanthropist
Interview with Samuel Johnson Woolf, quoted in Drawn from Life (1932)
“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”
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