Quotes About Aid

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

My role is not so much to lobby but be a sounding board for people. That's a more effective place for me to be.

I don't want to score; as long as I set people up and then they get the goals, that's all I'm bothered about.

There is a difference between a hand out and a help up. Brothers need to help brothers. They don't do it enough.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

My own country, Slovakia, has been there for South Sudan and its people. We made South Sudan a priority country of our official development assistance and humanitarian aid.

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

Nothing makes it more difficult to help than the intention of doing so.

Whoever cannot survive without taking charity, such as an old, sick, or greatly suffering individual, but who stubbornly refuses to accept aid, is guilty of murdering himself…yet one who needs charity but postpones taking it and lives in deprivation so as to not trouble the community, shall live to provide for others. —Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488–1575), Shulkhan Arukh (The Code of Jewish Law), Yoreh Deah 255:2

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

that. Amanda and Leo tried to help me last year

Because I'm a doctor, I tried to help whenever someone was injured. People were choking on tear gas and we'd pour cola on their faces, which counters the effect of gas. Their faces were sticky and glistening.

Les États-Unis dépensent des milliards de dollars en militaires pour les guerres, mais ils ne peuvent pas donner aux dirigeants haïtiens honnêtes de l'argent pour développer Haïti, et pourtant ils ont dit qu'ils aimaient Haïti.

Do a charity, donate your education to those who don't have it.