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Public charity

noun

A charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals).

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"Public charity" Quotes from Famous Books

... had coveted? Surely not. But of a sense of justice, and his suffering was all the deeper because it was shared by the whole class of the disinherited. He was convinced that the inmates of the poorhouse, bowed down under the yoke of public charity, envied his wife; and he was quite sure that many of the aristocrats who slept all around him in their graves, under their coats of arms, would have envied him his children if it had been their lot to die without leaving an heir to their estates. Certainly, ...

— Married • August Strindberg

... condition of the parcellaire laborer; and experience, universally confirming the theory, proves that this worker is condemned to misfortune from his mother's womb, no political reform, no association of interests, no effort either of public charity or of instruction, having the power ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon