“Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.” MillionsMajorsCrisisBucks Author:Jack Nicholson
“And while we stand with conviction and courage, we must live with compassion. Amid a world with massive social needs around us, ranging from desperate poverty and orphan crises and millions of girls being trafficked for sex, to the degradation of marriage and the abortion of babies, we need to speak and act with selfless love on all of these issues.” WorldNeedsGirlSpeakSocialSexCompassionPovertyMillionsIssuesBabyCrisisConvictionDesperateAbortionMassiveSelflessDegradationOrphanSelfless Love Author:David Platt
“In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.” WayWellsProblemTermWaterNumbersHalfTalkingMillionsHugeCoupleRight NowCrisisDecadesContamination Author:Josh Fox
“In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.” FacesMillionsCrisisGravesOpponents Author:Gichin Funakoshi
“People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs. So you understand that this crisis cannot leave the political system untouched. Of course we have to change but we have to change in the right way.” PeopleWayTodayJobsPoliticalSufferingCoursesMillionsTomorrowDespairCrisisRight WayGreecePolitical Systems Author:Dora Bakoyannis
“Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.” WorldShouldWealthPovertyMillionsEconomicStreetsWallCapitalismRelationCrisisRaisedCorruptionAround The WorldRecognitionCollapseRemedyPublic RelationsEconomic SystemsEconomic Collapse Author:Kathleen Parker
“I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program.” PeopleCountryTodayPresidentMillionsAliveProudMajorsProgramCrisisResponseInternationalAidsDevelopingReliefLive For TodayDeveloping CountriesPresident George W Bush Author:Condoleezza Rice
“It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?” PeopleWorldMomentsHalfMillionsThis WorldCrisisDefinitionsHumanitarianMudWrong ThingsConcentrating Author:Natalie Dormer
“[Hillary Clinton] was saying, "We never going to do anything in Iraq, we're not going to do anything in Syria." Enemies, do whatever you want. Continue the largest humanitarian crisis, 7 million people displaced refugees. Do all this. We're not going to do anything. That is the type of stuff that is been happening for the past 7 1/2 years under President [Barack] Obama.” PeopleWantYearsPastStuffPresidentEnemyMillionsTypeHappeningsCrisisClintonIraqHumanitarianBarackSyriaRefugeePresident Barack ObamaDo Whatever You Want Author:John McCain
“They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.” PeopleHumansWholeNaturalRacePovertyMillionsLandResourcesCrisisGreedHuman RaceFortyShelterDistressStolenNatural ResourcesPublic Lands Author:Denis Kearney
“When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.” HardWholeGovernmentJobsLostResultsMillionsEconomyGrowingPeriodsCrisisTradeSouthFinancialChinaPartnersFactorsChineseAffectedSouth AfricaGlobal EconomyFinancial Crisis Author:Thabo Mbeki
“One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesEarthAmericaJusticeMillionsIssuesChangedBrokenRacismPoliceCrisisCriminalsAfrican AmericanJailOther CountriesOngoingJustice SystemHispanicCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemUnarmedCustodyInstitutional Racism Author:Bernie Sanders
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentStoriesWould BeBlackWhiteHalfMillionsYears AgoDecidedCrisisBarackBlack PeopleGenesEntitledWhitenessDifferent Meanings Author:Eric Liu
“'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth - and nobody went to jail.” WorldFactsWealthCompanyMillionsSawsStreetsWallMajorsCrisisDollarsFinancialCriminalsBillionsDestroyedErasJailScandalMantrasObsceneFinancial Crisis Author:Matt Taibbi
“The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?” FightingNationsPoorMillionsRichParticularHealthySickWake UpCrisisResponseAidsSolidarityHivRich And PoorUnprecedentedOrphanEpidemicsHiv AidsAids Epidemic Author:Kofi Annan
“The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” IfsWorldSuccessRealizingDifferencesSecretHealingMillionsPlanetsCivilizationCrisisStructureDollarsWesternGreedSelfishnessCollapseCrashOur PlanetMillion DollarsContributingWestern CivilizationSecret To SuccessSelfishness And GreedDeciding What To Do Author:Marianne Williamson
“Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.” NeedsMeanCountryShowsGovernmentActionPoorDealsMillionsFourHealthCrisisMedicineWorkersAccessExtrasGrantsAffordableUnprecedentedPoor CountriesThose In NeedImmediate ActionHealth Workers Author:Annie Lennox