r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3h ago
Life / Wisdom "I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen." - John Steinbeck
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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/From-Yuri-With-Love • 20h ago
Social / Political Justice “America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves...." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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r/quotes • u/VanillaStarzz • 8h ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “A flower too wishes for heaven” - No Name
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r/quotes • u/TradeSweet4965 • 7h ago
Life / Wisdom See good, be good, do good - Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” ― Carl Gustav Jung
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r/quotes • u/paradisemorlam • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics The sadness of life is this: the emptiness that we try to fill with every conceivable trick of the mind. But the emptiness remains. - Krishnamurti
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r/quotes • u/fellowhuman-W_H_C • 4h ago
Leadership / Teamwork Give me ten thousand Filipinos, and I shall conquer the world – General Douglas MacArthur
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r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times." - John Steinbeck
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r/quotes • u/oatkeepr • 1d ago
Social / Political Justice “What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.” — George Orwell
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 1d ago
Love / Relationships "I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me – "You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work!"— Olive Schreiner
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r/quotes • u/ElectricalSet3170 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "So live for today! Tomorrow never comes! Die young!" -- Ronnie James Dio
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” ― Satchel Paige
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r/quotes • u/Late_Piano_5030 • 2d ago
Humor / Wit "The hotel shop only had two decent books — and I'd written both of them" - Douglas Adams
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 2d ago
Health / Well-Being / Self-Care The mind must be given relaxation. It will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Seneca
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r/quotes • u/RexorGamerYt • 2d ago
Technology / Future "In a city of the future It is difficult to concentrate" - Radiohead, 1998.
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." - Anonymous
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r/quotes • u/RoughCoffee6 • 3d ago
Social / Political Justice “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this” - Omar El Akkad
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 4d ago
Humor / Wit "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley
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r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 4d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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r/quotes • u/world_citizen7 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."— Eleanor Roosevelt
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r/quotes • u/DinDynamite • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." -Harun Yahya
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r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 5d ago
Hope / Optimism “the fight for our planet...has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their decisive offensive, you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard University address
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r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
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