“ Go to the poor and learn, for the poor alone are the charitable. ”
Jack London, The Road (1907). copy citation
| Author | Jack London |
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| Source | The Road |
| Topic | learning |
| Date | 1907 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Road |
Context
“Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food by the big house on the hill; and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor. Oh, you charity-mongers! Go to the poor and learn, for the poor alone are the charitable. They neither give nor withhold from their excess. They have no excess. They give, and they withhold never, from what they need for themselves, and very often from what they cruelly need for themselves.”
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