Plight Quotes

• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Rights, Suffering, Different

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

  David Cameron

  People, Promise, Trying

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• Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  Tim Bishop

  Jobs, People, Suffering

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• The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

  Tom Hayden

  Running, Gang Members, Justice

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• Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

  Paul Samuelson

  Japan, Self, Hype

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• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Suicide, Bombers, Terrible

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

  Bhumibol Adulyadej

  Needs, Natural, Disaster

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• Just as storms change the landscape of the earth, our hardships change the landscape of the heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Storm, Hardship

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• Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.

  Eva Burrows

  Blood, People, Needs

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• Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

  Diane Watson

  Money, Kings, Commitment

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• It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

  Wavy Gravy

  Hunting, Impact, Whales

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• The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, Office, President

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• If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Toads, Made

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.285, Ballantine Books

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• If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Black

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• Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Mean, Drug, Abuse

  Address to the New York Bar Association on Summer 1995. "The War On Drugs Is Lost". National Review Volume 48, No. 2, February 12, 1996.

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• Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.

  Jim Rohn

  Pain, Failure, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Moving, Heart, Science

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• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Humanity

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• A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. Through compassion for the plight of one individual, government fulfills its purpose as the servant of all the people.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Compassion, Government

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “My Hope For America”

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• ...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

  Audrey Hepburn

  Children, Abuse, Suffering

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• Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody. His main ability by far, as he came to realise during the course of 1919, was that in the prevailing circumstances he could inspire an audience which shared his basic political feelings, by the way he spoke, by the force of his rhetoric, by the very power of his prejudice, by the conviction he conveyed that there was a way out of Germany's plight.

  Ian Kershaw

  War, History, Political

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• I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances of the characters as individual psychological plights. That's my preference; still, a lot of people do read my novels as psychological studies, and they're right to read them that way too, if that's what they mean to them.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Character, Mean, People

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• Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical social and political change to construct meaningful popular control of all institutions - in communities, in the workplace, in the larger society, and on to the international order.

  Noam Chomsky

  Meaningful, Real, Order

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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