With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the disparity in resource allocation, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing humanitarian aid over warfare.
Bob Brown's quote reflects on the massive financial expenditures on war, suggesting that the same resources could instead be utilized to address critical global issues such as hunger, clean water, and education for children. It encourages a reevaluation of how priorities are set by nations, advocating for a shift towards compassionate action that directly benefits vulnerable populations.
In practice
This quote can be used during a charity event to emphasize the importance of redirecting funds to aid.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
The future will either be green or not at all.
I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.
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