"What the poor need is not charity, it's capital. They don't need caseworkers, they need co-workers... This whole concept of not giving things away, just giving people opportunity, is designed to preserve the dignity of the recipient. I don't think anybody likes being thought of as a charity case. All human beings need to have a sense of dignity."
-Millard Fuller. He said it better than I did.
A favorite corollary to that (from Tom Robbins) is: "There are many ways to victimize people. The most insidious is to persuade someone that they are a victim."
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