Give a Little

Quotes from the book I'm reading right now.....Give a Little by Wendy Smith

"To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter." Aristotle

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams

"Poverty is like heat; you cannot see it, you can only feel it; so to know poverty you have to go through it." A poor man, Adaboya, Ghana

"Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away at one's dignity and drives one into total despair." A poor woman, Moldova

"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." Robert Kennedy

"With open hearts and open hands, we gave what we could, and a little became a lot."

"The first freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat." Eleanor Roosevelt

"My children were hungry, so I told them that the rice was cooking until they fell asleep." A poor man Ethiopia

"As farming families do better, they start to put their kids in school for longer periods. Almost every country that has become wealthy started with a huge increase in farming productivity." Bill Gates