Plight Quotes

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing – like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he’s a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.

I’m a political poet – let us say a ‘human‘ poet, a poet that’s concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that’s what I’m going to use.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

Steve worked tirelessly to promote conservation, wildlife, and the environment, and his work enabled the plight of endangered species to reach a whole new audience.

It’s not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it’s one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

As an explorer, I know firsthand there are many places in the ocean so full of life that they should be protected. Coral reefs and mangrove coastlines are stressed already by climate change and ocean acidification, and poor planning will just make their plight worse.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Ray Charles‘ revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

The U.S.’ refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.

Going to Africa to highlight the plight of kids with AIDS and HIV made us realise just how lucky we are.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

I’ve always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there’s a desperation to their plight that resonates.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

I know I did ‘Establishment Blues,’ and I said ‘This is not a song it’s an outburst‘ and I’d play it, I never did describe it as a rant – R-A-N-T – but the thing is it’s exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there’s a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

Farmer‘s plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves – at times for decades.

If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one’s self, you know, one day at a time.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

I didn’t hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he’d gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn’t have touched the subject.

Farmer‘s plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.

I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we – humanitarians – have been complicit.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

I didn’t come over with a comfy sponsor that took care of my visa and paid me a good amount of money right away. I came over here with nothing, the little bit of money that I had saved up, and it was struggle and plight to get some recognition and then finally make it to the WWE.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Look at the plight of a devotee. One cannot even use the name of his favourite God. What sort of democracy is this?

Ray Charles‘ revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Through my work with PETA, I have learned a great deal about chimpanzee behavior and the plight of chimpanzees imprisoned in laboratories.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.

We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight of our Christian brothers abroad.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world’s poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting – not replicating – the plight of the world’s poor.

I know I did ‘Establishment Blues,’ and I said ‘This is not a song it’s an outburst‘ and I’d play it, I never did describe it as a rant – R-A-N-T – but the thing is it’s exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there’s a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

I’ve always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there’s a desperation to their plight that resonates.

When I was first lady, I worked to call attention to the plight of refugees fleeing Cambodia for Thailand, I visited Thailand and witnessed firsthand the trauma of parents and children separated by circumstance beyond their control.

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing – like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he’s a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.

I’m a political poet – let us say a ‘human‘ poet, a poet that’s concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that’s what I’m going to use.

I am concerned about the plight of the working poor… If doctors are not paid for seeing those patients, doctors will not go to rural Alabama because you can’t expect a doctor to go to rural Alabama and lose money.

I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we – humanitarians – have been complicit.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

I didn’t hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he’d gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn’t have touched the subject.

Going to Africa to highlight the plight of kids with AIDS and HIV made us realise just how lucky we are.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump‘s refusal to clearly denounce it. Nobody with any empathy for the plight of people of color in this country could respond the way he did.

It’s not my vision when I cover a woman‘s face with a chador. I got the idea from a ‘National Geographic‘ photo. I’m just showing their plight in the world.

I don’t have children of my own so I can’t say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I don’t condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Kneeling for the anthem does nothing to advance solutions to racial injustice, police brutality, or any other social plight. It is a slap in the face to patriotism itself. It is a statement that America as a country is no longer worth standing for.