Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the desire for impactful societal change over merely focusing on low expenses in charity work.
Dan Pallotta argues that the current generation prioritizes meaningful, transformative actions rather than solely maintaining low operational costs in charitable organizations. He suggests that the legacy left behind should reflect significant contributions to the world, rather than just frugality in charity overhead.
In practice
In a speech about philanthropy at a charity event.
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.
The Paris climate agreement may be a harbinger of the spirit and mindset needed to sustain genuine global cooperation.
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.
I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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