“It is an affirmative command to give tzedaka to the poor of Israel. … Anyone who sees a poor man begging alms and turns away his glance from him and does not give him tzedaka transgresses a negative command, as it is said, "You shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand to your needy brother"”

— Shlomo Ganzfried, book Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

Deuteronomy 15:7
Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

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Hungarian rabbi 1804–1886

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

“A man should also take heart that life is like a revolving wheel, and in the end he or his son or his son's son may be reduced to taking tzedaka. He should not think, therefore, "How shall I diminish my property in order to give to the poor." Instead, he should realize that his property is not his own, but only deposited with him in trust to do with as the Depositor (God) wishes.”

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Kitzur Shulchan Aruch

“So give to the poor; I’m begging you, I’m warning you, I’m commanding you, I’m ordering you.”
Date ergo pauperibus: rogo, moneo, praecipio, iubeo.

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

61:13 Alternate versions: Give then to the poor; I beg, I advise, I charge, I command you. Sermon 11:13 on the New Testament http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/160311.htm http://books.google.com/books?as_q=&hl=en&num=10&as_epq=I+beg,+I+advise,+I+charge,+I+command+you.&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&cr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give. Sermon 61:13, On Almsgiving, The Fathers Of The Church: A New Translation. Saint Augustine Commentary On The Lord’s Sermon On The Mount With Seventeen Related Sermons http://www.archive.org/details/fathersofthechur027834mbp, (1951), Ludwig Schopp, Roy Joseph Deferrari, vol. 11/3, p. 286 Sermons

“Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: "For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother."”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Life of Themistocles

“Give him a chance, not push him up if he will not be pushed. Help any man who stumbles; if he lies down, it is a poor job to try to carry him; but if he is a worthy man, try your best to see that he gets a chance to show the worth that is in him.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: The right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted. Let us admit also the right to regulate the terms and conditions of labor, which is the chief element of wealth, directly in the interest of the common good. The fundamental thing to do for every man is to give him a chance to reach a place in which he will make the greatest possible contribution to the public welfare. Understand what I say there. Give him a chance, not push him up if he will not be pushed. Help any man who stumbles; if he lies down, it is a poor job to try to carry him; but if he is a worthy man, try your best to see that he gets a chance to show the worth that is in him.

“Do not turn away a poor man…even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you…God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection.”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1376
Sunni Hadith

“Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him
No names. Dismiss him from your images.
The hot of him is purest in the heart.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>He is and may be but oh! He is, he is,
This foundling of the infected past, so bright,
So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him
No names. Dismiss him from your images.
The hot of him is purest in the heart. </p

“Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.”

Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.

“Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,
Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door,
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span;
Oh give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.”

Thomas Moss (minister) (1740–1808) British writer

The Beggar, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.”

Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR

Appeal to the military to not participate in the coup attempt, while standing on a tank during troop movements against the Russian White House. (19 August 1991)
1990s

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