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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice
Cause
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Circumstances
Must
Economic
Make
Overlook
Commendable
Which
Necessary
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan
Money
Philanthropist
Able
Cat
Never
Democratic
Understand
Been
Contributor
Same
Republican
Why
Amount
Fat
When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth
Teacher
School
Church
Will
Poet
Blessed
Become
Every
Philanthropist
Philosopher
Dream
Clergyman
Until
Cathedral
Becomes
Real
Brave
Patriot
Then
Thinkers
Honest
University
People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
Charles Best
People
Public Schools
Philanthropist
Only
Support
Idea
Schools
Being
Want
Public
Spare
Warm
Might
Even
I did do an American pilot, but it wasn't shot in America, it was shot in South Africa. It was called 'The Philanthropist,' and it was for NBC.
Dominique McElligott
Pilot
South Africa
Philanthropist
South
America
American
Did
Africa
Shot
NBC
I want to be remembered as the biggest philanthropist in Turkey.
Husnu Ozyegin
Philanthropist
Remembered
Want
Biggest
Turkey
I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
J. B. Pritzker
Hate
Philanthropist
Term
Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.
JaVale McGee
Gift
Turkeys
Philanthropist
Given
Always
Been
Did
Personally
Away
As a philanthropist, I give away a lot of money every year. Yet I thought there was a higher leverage to come in and create movies and TV shows that were actually able to do some good in the world.
Jeffrey Skoll
Good
World
Money
Thought
Year
Every
Philanthropist
TV
TV Shows
Able
Some
Give
Higher
Come
Were
Lot
Movies
Create
Shows
Away
Actually
Leverage
I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.
Joyce Giraud
Beautiful
Wife
Philanthropist
Babies
Valentino
Above
Am
Producer
Leonardo
Mommy
Actress
In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Time
Experience
Writing
World
Money
Better
Word
Thought
Better World
Down
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Once
About
Something
Rather
Gives
Networks
Checks
How
Passive
Up
Sitting
Any
Anyone
Anything
Create
Skills
View
Used
Conjure
Who
Amount
I grew up in a very high-achieving family. I have a brother who's a Harvard-educated cardiothoracic surgeon. My other brother is a two-time Olympian, fifth-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles, and an entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Molly Bloom
Family
Entrepreneur
Surgeon
Philanthropist
Other
Brother
Pick
Up
Very
Grew
Eagles
Draft
Olympian
Philadelphia
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
Muhammad Yunus
Business
World
Become
Philanthropist
Kind
Touched
Never
Part
Economists
Said
Go
Selfishness
Selflessness
Different
Different Kind
Create
Business World
Expression
Based
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.
Nelson A. Miles
Travel
Philanthropist
Sight
Gulf
Thousands
Constantly
Atlantic
Had
Terrible
Fallen
Line
Been
Green
Pacific
Lakes
Placed
Victims
Might
Races
Who
Wars
Graves
Two
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
Innocent
Building
Enjoy
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Completing
Pleasure
Frank
Gifts
Seeing
Results
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Jailed
Want
Whether
Flow
As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.
Pierre Omidyar
People
Human Being
Opportunity
Try
Ownership
Every
Philanthropist
Everything
Born
Take
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Equally
Done
Lack
Human
Being
Capable
Rooted
Notion
Help
Help People
You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.
Pierre Omidyar
Time
You
Philanthropist
Invest
Venture
Same
Same Time
Capitalist
Help
Companies
Grow
To be a philanthropist, you don't have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you and ask, 'What little bit can I do? Whose life can I touch?'
Priyanka Chopra
Life
You
Philanthropist
Bit
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Touch
Look
Around
Just
Mandela
Little
Little Bit
Ask
Whose
I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
Raheem DeVaughn
Myself
Philanthropist
Performer
Up
Revolutionary
Blown
Artist
Conscious
I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.
Robin Chase
Love
Money
Philanthropist
Would
More
Could
Had
Much
Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
Sylvester Stallone
Philanthropist
See
Violent
I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.
Trevor Donovan
Man
Philanthropist
He
Like
Lady
Newman
Paul
Paul Newman
Epitome
Aspire
I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
Warren Moon
Myself
Entertainment
Sports
Philanthropist
Broadcaster
Besides
Network
Fact
Football
Football Player
Also
Executive
Known
Proud
Establish
Being
Former
Worked
Successful
Hard
Businessman
Player