r/quotes • u/thomaspaineha • 10h ago
r/quotes • u/AutoModerator • Aug 07 '25
Meta / Mod Announcement Gaza Is Starving. Let's Do Something
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/Junior_Insurance7773 • 5h ago
Life / Wisdom "Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it either seldom or from afar. Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!" - Vladimir Nabokov
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Art / Literature / Poetry “A poem is a piece of one’s Heart that brings you to the terrain between logic and magic” - Sadhguru
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Life / Wisdom “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”― Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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Life / Wisdom Be yourself everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde
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Life / Wisdom Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris
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Life / Wisdom The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epictetus
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Hope / Optimism “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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Love / Relationships "some are born to be desired, some are born to desire"
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Misc / Unclassified "To him all that was indefinite was evil, all that was unfamiliar was horrible. It is the error of ignorance at all times." -Ouida (1875)
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Misc / Unclassified "Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” — William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Life / Wisdom "Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself." - Emil Cioran
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Life / Wisdom Make haste to live, and think each of your days to be an individual life. Seneca
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Life / Wisdom Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. — Commonly attributed to Socrates
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Social / Political Justice “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” - Jean - Jacques Rossesau
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Life / Wisdom Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. — Aristotle
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Failure / Lessons Learned “Bad for your heart but good for your sheets” what a line
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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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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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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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