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“Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“The explosion of a terrorist's single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster. An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust. Medical researchers and military analysts forebode grim consequences.”

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Author:Alan Cranston

“The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.”

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Author:Bill Bradley

“There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.”

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Author:Hanan Ashrawi

“When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.”

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators [which are] particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan...My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.”

“And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.”

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Book:A Warning to the Hindus

Source: A Warning to the Hindus

“I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.”

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Author:Chris Hughes

“It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.”

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Author:Jeff Cohen

“If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises!”

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Author:Nguyen Van Thieu

“There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.”

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Author:Navi Pillay

“What are you doing for others?”

Book:I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

“I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.”

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Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.”

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Author:Sebastiao Salgado

“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”

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Book:The Words of Albert Schweitzer

Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.”

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Author:Jan Egeland

“My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.”

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Author:Abdul Sattar Edhi

“No man can write who is not first a humanitarian”

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Author:William Faulkner

“... the long-lasting humanitarian impact of these inhuman weapons continues to deny communities the opportunity to rebuild long after the end of the conflicts.”

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Author:Kofi Annan

“Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“We're interested in it because it would provide a land bridge up to Uzbekistan, which provides us, among other things, a humanitarian pathway for us to move supplies out of Central Asia and down into Afghanistan.”

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Author:Tommy Franks

“In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.”

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Author:Robert W. Firestone

“I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.”

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Author:Princess Diana

“Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?”

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Book:Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009

Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009

“I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.”

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Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.”

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Author:Jan Egeland

“Few nations do more than the United States to assist their least fortunate citizens-to make certain that no child, no elderly or handicapped citizen, no family in any circumstances in any State, is left without the essential needs for a decent and healthy existence. In too few nations, I might add, are the people aware of the progressive strides this country has taken in demonstrating the humanitarian side of freedom. Our record is a proud one-and it sharply refutes those who accuse us of thinking only in the materialistic terms of cash registers and calculating machines.”

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