all too often, running upstream isn't possible and swimming is the only way to go. Procuring justice is exhausting.

"Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has been attacked. It is justice’s role to prevent the attack."
--Blessed Frederic Ozanam (20-year-old layman, founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul)

I'd like to repost this, but I need to know who sent it.

‎"Charity pulls people out of the river. Justice jumps in, swims up stream and stops the people who are throwing them in."

Janet, as I understand it, that expression/metaphor/parable is a very old one with no known source. The best truths are often from Anonymous. ,,, That guy had all the best lines. ; )