An idea from Self-Reliance and Other Essays

The refusals reach real causes too. A campaigner against slavery whom the essayist judges vain is told to go love his own child instead. Money given to strangers’ charities becomes “a wicked dollar.” The same man later spoke in public against slavery, in 1844 and again in 1851.

From Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson