Action Quote by Jane Goodall

“Something needs to be destroyed for anything new to be introduced. A city is flooded before anyone thinks to build a dam. Someone you…

— Katie Kacvinsky

There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation…

— Hanan Ashrawi

It [9/11 tragedy] has affected us on so many levels: economically, morally, spiritually, ethically. It's been all over the place. A new American identity…

— Porochista Khakpour

Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.

— Adnan Sami

“The misery is what should concern us: the death, rage and distress of others always comes back to haunt us. Especially when the tragedies…

— Marc Vachon

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is…

— Rebecca Solnit

Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster.

— Bertrand Russell

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am…

— Tony Blair

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic…

— Jo Bonner

Its so easy to read into why people do things, to make assumptions, jump to conclusions, and to reduce people to the sum of…

— Rock Cowles

My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world, individual citizens…

— Mark Rylance

The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues

— Louis Wolfson