"Why do we have to be a military……" — Howard Zinn

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• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — Irving Babbitt
• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. — Irving Babbitt
• The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the… — Irving Babbitt
• I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in… — Emmanuelle Beart
• Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as… — Pope Benedict XVI
• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned… — Harry Browne
• We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved… — Anthony Weiner
• It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent… — Joichi Ito
• That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists… — Mahatma Gandhi

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