What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
Interpretation
The poor require opportunities and collaboration instead of mere charity.
Clarence Jordan's quote emphasizes the importance of providing the poor with capital and collaborative work opportunities, rather than just charity. It suggests that sustainable change happens through empowering individuals to work alongside others as equals, rather than being dependent on aid or assistance from above.
In practice
In a speech about community development, one might say, 'What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.'
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.
When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
In so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic. It's built in, like a rot in a frame.
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