Dad ate the food, but I could tell it was killing him to take such obvious charity.

My mother was an intensely proud woman and would not take charity.

I didn't come here to live on benefits or to take charity.

"That is kind of him," she said, "but he knows we have no money for meat and will not take such charity."

"Taking charity means you have to admit you're at your lowest point."

I will take charity from no one, least of all from him.

I don't take charity from people like you,' Romero said.

To take charity from the very charities your father once gave to?

And I don't want to take charity from anyone.

They'd like to do this on their own, not take charity from the Federation.