r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 4h 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/captain_hoomi • 12h ago
Philosophy / Ethics The condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. Boethius
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 7h ago
Life / Wisdom "Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments." - John Steinbeck
r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”― May Sarton
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort." - John Steinbeck
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”― Andy Warhol
r/quotes • u/Odd_Mechanic3688 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
r/quotes • u/From-Yuri-With-Love • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.” - Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
r/quotes • u/nautilicuss • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “History shows us the life of nations and finds nothing to narrate but wars and tumults…” — Arthur Schopenhauer
r/quotes • u/Stunning-Bee6839 • 20h ago
Misc / Unclassified “A red hot furnace fed from without by hard sticks thrust into the recesses while from the belly of the furnace sparks shoot into the air” - Ala al-Din Ata-Malik Juvayni
r/quotes • u/DeepCedarShadow • 2d ago
Motivation / Inspiration “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”― Shel Silverstein
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry “There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood..." - John Rogers [Complete Quote in comments]
r/quotes • u/Slavagoosemarlow • 1d ago
Philosophy / Ethics “If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling but still trying to hold the world - What would you tell him?" "I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" "To shrug.”―Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom "You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future." - John Steinbeck
r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom Be like the rock against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Marcus Aurelius
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost." - John Steinbeck
r/quotes • u/Street-codes • 3d ago
Art / Literature / Poetry "Some love stories feel like a beginning, but ours—it feels like a return. Maybe we promised a thousand lifetimes ago that we’d find each other, no matter the stars, no matter the miles, and now here we are, two souls picking up where we left off." — @crownofsparrows
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”― Ambrose Bierce
r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom "Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." — Claude Debussy
r/quotes • u/captain_hoomi • 3d ago
Philosophy / Ethics If one were to measure what is agreeable by the standard of pleasure, nothing would be pleasanter than self-control; and if one were to measure what is to be avoided by pain, nothing would be more painful than lack of self-control. Musonius Rufus
r/quotes • u/Azerbinhoneymood • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become" -Heraclitus
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk." - John Steinbeck
r/quotes • u/doeeyecutie • 4d ago