r/quotes • u/lospantalonesdefuego • 14h ago
Social / Political Justice “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” - Jean - Jacques Rossesau
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r/quotes • u/AutoModerator • Aug 07 '25
Meta / Mod Announcement Gaza Is Starving. Let's Do Something
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The UN has stated that every single part of Gaza is in famine conditions.
For over 22 months, Palestinians in Gaza have been starving. Parents have been feeding their children leaves, animal feed, and flour mixed with water. Babies have died from malnutrition. The trucks carrying food, formula, medicine, and clean water sat just miles away, blocked by Israel.
Now, after massive international pressure, some aid is finally getting in.
This is a crack in the blockade, not its end. Aid is not flooding in; it is trickling, and what’s entering can’t possibly reach 2 million people without a total lifting of restrictions, guaranteed long-term access, and safe distribution.
What you can do right now:
Keep up the pressure - aid only started moving because of public outcry. Organize, protest, keep talking. This momentum cannot fade. Contact your representatives to end Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Donate- if you’re able to. Choose vetted organizations with access on the ground.
Amplify - share updates, Palestinian voices, and testimonies. Keep an eye on Palestine.
This famine is not an accident. It’s the result of siege, blockade, and a system of control. If we look away now, they’ll tighten the noose more.
Speak to Your Representatives
Donate
- Palestinian Red Crescent – medical aid, ambulance services, and emergency care.
- UNICEF for Gaza’s Children – nutrition, clean water, trauma support.
- HEAL Palestine – urgent relief, medical evacuations of injured children from Gaza.
To explore more donation options, check this comprehensive list.
If you’d like other subreddits to carry this message, send the mods to r/RedditForHumanity.
r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 7h ago
Life / Wisdom Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
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r/quotes • u/Ok-Yogurtcloset9927 • 8h ago
Life / Wisdom “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.” -Bertolt Brecht
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 1h ago
Grief / Healing the greatest and deepest heartfelt suffering only finds relief in the uninhibited expression of sorrow, and through the body and spirit's complete exhaustion. -from 'Úrsula' by Maria Firmina dos Reis (1859)
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 18h ago
Life / Wisdom “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”― Chief Seattle
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 19h ago
Life / Wisdom "Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation." - Albert Camus
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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r/quotes • u/Serious_Distance_118 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
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r/quotes • u/Rasure-101 • 1d ago
Love / Relationships “But to fall in love, does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • 1d ago
Social / Political Justice In order to eliminate evils at their source, to discredit prejudices, to put a stop to abuses, one must trace them back to their causes and, without hesitation in the face of weariness or of any sort of sacrifice, assure the greatest possible publicity for one's investigations -Flora Tristan (1840)
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”― Sinclair Lewis
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker's mind. Marcus Aurelius
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 2d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry There will be no art, no literature, no science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. - George Orwell, 1984
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "Dostoevski's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity—all this is difficult to admire." - Vladimir Nabokov
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r/quotes • u/BeyondTheSteth • 2d ago
Technology / Future “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain.” — Nikola Tesla (1926)
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r/quotes • u/the_jobbernowl • 2d ago
Social / Political Justice 'History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.' - John W. Campbell Jr.
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r/quotes • u/Ok-Yogurtcloset9927 • 2d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “To be nobody butyourself in a worldwhich is doing its best day and night to make you likeeverybody else means to fight the hardest battlewhich any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”―Edward Estlin Cummings
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r/quotes • u/world_citizen7 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."- Lao Tzu, ancient philosopher
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”― Roy T. Bennett
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r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca
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r/quotes • u/MeasurementMobile747 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, and causes you to bump into people not going your way.- Edna Ferberx
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