“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.” PeopleTryingHumansDoneHelpingSufferingCommunityHuman BeingsAttentionPovertyConflictDrawsOrdinaryRootsImpactInjusticeMissionsCoreGrassGood WorkOrdinary PeopleEldersBeing DoneTrying To ChangeAlleviate Author:Desmond Tutu
“How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!” HumansDiesHuman BeingsAnimalPovertyStreetsAngelLonging Author:Mother Teresa
“I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.” HumansHas BeensFeelingsReligionWomenHuman BeingsPovertyWonderfulGenerationsAncientMysteriousAltarsCathedralsIndignation Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.” WorldHumansPersonsWarCareDiesChallengesHuman BeingsPovertyMillionsEconomyDevelopmentWeaponsResourcesGreenClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeIncludingProductionsAvailableExtremesProtectionHumanitarianMedicalPursueBudgetsReliefAddressesGet AwayNegotiationAdaptationImperativesSurveillanceDisarmamentPreventionEnvironmental ProtectionMalnutritionMedical CareGood FaithPandemicsExtreme PovertyGreen Economy Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.” HumansWarOpportunityHuman BeingsCommonEnemyPovertyIgnoranceDependsDiseaseCreatingWeaponsAbsenceNuclearNuclear WeaponsWorth LivingLife Worth LivingTrue PeaceCommon Enemy Author:Barack Obama
“For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.” HumansChildrenProblemJesusHuman BeingsPovertyClearConditionsSolutionsResourcesDirectPraiseMiserySimplicityKingdomsNakedContactRadicalEstablishmentHuman ConditionParadoxical Author:Andrew Harvey