100 Humanitarian Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you think of Peyton Manning, you think 'ambassador.' The game has grown exponentially during his career because of him and what he means to our game, not only as a football player but as a humanitarian. Larry Fitzgerald

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Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. Levon Helm

Mom Great Doctor Lawyer Would Scientist Preferred Dad Humanitarian

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. Michael Johns

Will Decency Sense Crisis Easily Some Remedy Policy Policymakers Foreign Foreign Policy American African Central Rooted Ignored Humanitarian

We will deploy our men and women in uniform only where there is a need, and where their presence can make a genuine difference in ensuring public safety and an easing of the humanitarian concerns at our southern border. Michelle Lujan Grisham

Women Safety Will Men Men And Women Our Ensuring Easing Border Only Make Concerns Genuine Southern Difference Where Deploy Public Uniform Public Safety Humanitarian Presence Need

I've had the privilege of working with Bono for the past few years in the One Campaign to fight AIDS and hunger and disease around the world. Bono is an Irishman and a great humanitarian. And I remember him telling me of his admiration for America. Mike Huckabee

Great Me Fight World Remember Past Few Bono AIDS Hunger Telling Admiration Had Him Around His Years Campaign Past Few Years Irishman Privilege America Disease Working Humanitarian

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. Mike Simpson

Projects States Further Reconstruction Over Dollars Iraq Donor After Infrastructure Japan Billion Billion Dollars United United States Largest Humanitarian Second

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. Noam Chomsky

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The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief. Pete Hoekstra

Military Enough Relief Also Equipment Kurds Iraq Just Humanitarian Need

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends. Peter Maurer

Political Action Hostage Ends Cannot Held Humanitarian

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs. Peter Maurer

Needs Increase Increasing Immediate Scale Having Development Between Long-Term Longer Conflicts Humanitarian Assistance Last Adapt

Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective. Peter Maurer

Perspective Action Medium Long-Term Longer Envisage Option Humanitarian

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts. Peter Maurer

Work Increasingly Once Relief Only Development Long-Term Conceived Armed Protracted Effort Substitute Conflicts Short-Term Humanitarian Assistance

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts. Peter Maurer

Political Dramatically Address Destroyed Cities Solutions Something Only Resulting Armed Insufficient Protracted End Conflicts Created Organizations Humanitarian Services Fragility

The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors. Peter Maurer

Diversity Increasing Sector System Embrace Diverse Only Variety Ecosystem Also Traditional Private Private Sector Should Actor Humanitarian

The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization's ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely on predictable income flows to plan sustainable programmes. Peter Maurer

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