r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • 13h 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/MaxGoodwinning • 17h ago
Failure / Lessons Learned "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." ~ Maya Angelou
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.” ― Will Rogers
r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.” — Maya Angelou
r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 1d ago
Social / Political Justice ''Justice is not only blind, it limps.'' - Will Durant, The Story of Civilization, book 10 (1967)
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom "All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes." - Cormac McCarthy
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - ‘God damn it, you've got to be kind.’ ” - Kurt Vonnegut
r/quotes • u/WasteChampionship968 • 1d ago
Life / Wisdom Ever tried, ever failed, no matter; Try again, fail again, fail better. -Samuel Beckett
r/quotes • u/Non-Conventionnel-77 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” ― Albert Camus
r/quotes • u/Turbulent_Pass6750 • 2d ago
Life / Wisdom Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.-Jean de La Fontaine
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 3d ago
Life / Wisdom “I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.” ― Langston Hughes
r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius,
r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a grand scale?” — St. Augustine, City of God (426 CE) [alt. translation & full quote in comments]
Life / Wisdom "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
r/quotes • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 4d ago
Life / Wisdom "What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification." - Emil Cioran
r/quotes • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus
r/quotes • u/andtbhidgaf • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "Without music, life would be a mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche
r/quotes • u/Ill-Chocolate-8856 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
r/quotes • u/TouchOfSanity • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent." - Arthur Conan Doyle.
r/quotes • u/Infamous_Tiger18 • 5d ago
Life / Wisdom "Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong." - John Flanagan
r/quotes • u/Great-Cost9329 • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 6d ago
Life / Wisdom “Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.” — Maxim Gorky
r/quotes • u/Cereal-Is-Dinner • 7d ago