Humanitarian Quotes - Page 2

• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rights, Population

  Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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• We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

  Woody Harrelson

  Block, War, Aids

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• If something's not impossible, there must be a way of doing it.

  Nicholas Winton

  Optimistic, Way, Impossible

  "Saving the Children" with Bob Simon, www.cbsnews.com. September 7, 2014.

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• Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Superpower

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.238, Haymarket Books

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• I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Legacy, Pay, Billions

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• The basic problem affecting the Pakistan today is human rights. Islamic fundamentalists have no roots among the common people and while they are pushing hard for religious fundamentalists to take hold, the common people still seek change through humanitarian and common human rights law.

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Religious, Islamic, Rights

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  Irving Babbitt

  Sympathy, Stress, Breadth

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

  Voltaire

  Death, Loyal, Patriot

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• A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

  George Orwell

  Hypocrite, Insult

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

  Ron Paul

  Violence, Achieve, Outreach

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• Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

  Daryl Hannah

  Animal, Rights, Activist

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• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Throughout his many years, he enriched the lives of countless others and served as a model of generosity and discipline to those he met, fostering an atmosphere of compassion, harmony, and unity. Sri Chinmoy was a leader, humanitarian, artist, athlete, and public servant who will be sorely missed. His legacy of kindness, reflection, and resolve will endure for many years to come.

  William J. Clinton

  Kindness, Athlete, Compassion

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• No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Firsts

  1957 In Time, 25 Feb.

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• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

  Bono

  Ocean, Eye, Mean

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• Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Ignorant, Ministry

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

  Howard Zinn

  War, People, Helping

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• I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Awards, Needs, Dear Friend

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Citizens, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Relief, Rising

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• The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

  Irving Babbitt

  World, Affair, Program

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• If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

  Cate Blanchett

  Beautiful, Thinking, Self

  "Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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