Delicate* posted a quote
January 28, 2013 3:54pm UTC
If I could take all the sadness of the world, Every hurt and every pain. All the poverty, illness, and heartbreak, And hold it inside my heart, I would. Because it would be worth it. Not matter how much it broke me, I'd know that I'd finally made this earth, A better place.
Primadonna* posted a quote
September 27, 2014 12:46pm UTC
Please, please, please do not use Africa as the poster child for poverty and starvation. Africa has developed and advanced cities too. Poverty is all around us, don't talk about "children starving in Ethiopia". There's every chance that kids in your city go hungry to bed too.
multifarious* posted a quote
January 26, 2015 11:51am UTC
'I must try and show you this There is a child, I think maybe it's four months old. The doctor says, 'No it's two years old.' It squats on baked mud, a tattered dusty piece of cotton hangs from one shoulder onto its distended stomach. Its face is huge. A two year old face on a four month body. The eyes are moons of dust and flies caked by tears so big they don't dry until they reach the navel. The child stares. Between its legs flows a constant stream of diarrhoea. The immediate earth around its legs is damp with it. I am watching a child die. In total silence and surrounded by its family it eventually begins to s.h.i.t out its own stomach. I am tired with grief and despair and a consuming rage for humanity. He dies soon. He just dies. Big deal. A jumble of bones and dry skin, wet eyes, flies and s.h.i.t.' - Bob Geldof's Diary Notes from Africa re: the Ethiopian famine.
Be thankful for what you have. Someone, somewhere is fighting for their next meal. Someone, somewhere doesn't have a roof to cover their head as they fall asleep at night. Someone, somewhere doesn't have the clothes needed to cover their cold skin. Someone, somewhere is wishing they had more. Someone, somewhere is wishing they had what you have. These people are the strongest people I know. I would give them anything to at least make them smile. This one's to you. The homeless. The starving. The naked. You all, give me hope♥