Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.
Warsan Shire
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Diogenes
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Khalil Gibran
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
It always seems impossible, until it is done.
Nelson Mandela
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
The current practice of confining displaced people in camps is the worst of all options. It leads to enormous psychological damage and fuels violence and crime.
Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.
Ken Robinson
Help someone, even if you know they can never help you back.
The Andan Foundation
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
Only with innovative cities can we tackle the huge ecological problems.
Dr. Christian H. Kälin
The greatest good is what we do for one another.
Mother Teresa
We aim to help refugees to return home educated and able to participate in the rebuilding of their own countries or to conduct a meaningful life wherever else they might decide to settle.
The Andan Foundation
Refugees have an extraordinary wealth of talent and passion to contribute to society. We need to make sure people are again empowered, are given back choices and their future.
Dr. Christian H. Kälin
If there is a link between violent extremism and migration, it is that violent extremism is driving people from their homes, not that people are coming to our shores to commit violent extremism.
Prof. Dr. Khalid Koser
Andan’s focus is on creating opportunities for self-sustenance, economic empowerment, and inclusion for forcibly displaced people.
Dr. Christian H. Kälin
Those who talk should do and those who do should talk.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread from my neighbor is a spiritual question.
Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Canada’s inclusiveness is vital. This is a country that does not ask about your origins, but concerns itself with your destiny.
Peter Munk