And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

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See -- and the reason I don't want it is not just out of a sense of charity.

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But out of five test cases last year, the Charity Commission said that two schools did not offer sufficient public benefit to qualify for charitable status.

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The single best thing that America and Europe can do for Africa is not to spoon out charity but to allow Americans and Europeans to buy the products that Africa is capable of producing competitively not just agricultural products but also labour-intensive manufactures such as textiles and leather work.

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