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“Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.”

“I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.”

Choices Left Social Welfare Collectives Delhi Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Author:Amartya Sen

“The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.”

Social Christ Church Lessons Messages Program Mark Institutions Obvious Welfare Missionary Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Book:Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached

Source: Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached

“Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Social Military Resources Program Defense Budgets Welfare Best Place Social Welfare Military Budget Welfare Programs

Book:Thinking Unth 80SP

Source: Thinking Unth 80SP

“How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.”

Earth Social Effects Security Treats Welfare National Security Social Welfare Welfare Programs

Author:Jim Fowler

“What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of it are for the United States and Mexico. We hear a lot of extravagant numbers and claims made, but very few hard facts. We don't really know what, if any, burdens illegal migrants impose on the US economy or the social welfare apparatus, and those issues must be clarified.”

“Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.”

People Social Power Security Duty Injustice Secure Welfare Social Service Social Welfare Two Nations Welfare Programs

Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

“The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.”

Humanity Social Tomorrow Concerned Theology Welfare Dogma Social Welfare

Author:Tommy Douglas

“This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.”

“Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.”

Source: Home and exile and other selections

“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”

Age Young Fighting Social Parent Black Differences Influence Taught Welfare Competing Inferiority Benevolent Social Welfare

Book:Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980