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“NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Your worst enemy is not the person in opposition to you. It is the person occupying the spot you would be fighting from and doing nothing.”
― Heather Marsh, Binding Chaos

“The colonists, the aid workers, the NGOs -- they're all in a single progression: paternalistic foreigners, assuming they are better and brighter, offering shiny, destabilizing, dependence producing gifts. How can one accept anything from so-called rescuers when their predecessors helped your people destroy one another?”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Unfortunately, what anti-human trafficking NGOs [non-governmental organizations] really do is instead quite damaging: they normalize existent labor opportunities for women, no matter how low the pay, dangerous the conditions, or abusive an environment they foster. And they shame women who reject such jobs.”
― Anne Elizabeth Moore, Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & Trafficking

“On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions”
― Widad Akrawi

“Now we're in a situation where democracy has been taken into the workshop and fixed, remodelled to be market friendly. So now the United States is fighting wars to install democracies. First is was topple them, now it's install them. And the whole rise of corporate-funded NGOs in the modern world, this notion of CSR, corporate social responsibility--it's all part of a New Managed Democracy. In a sense, it's all part of the same machine.”
― Arundhati Roy, Things that Can and Cannot Be Said: Essays and Conversations

“Funding as fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could.”
― Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

“The world powers made it clear in 1994 that they did not care to fight genocide in central Africa, but they had yet to come up with a convincing explanation of why they were content to feed it. The false promise of protection represented by the camps placed Hutu civilians, as well as Tutsis and everyone else in the region, in mortal peril, and it was no comfort that this state of affairs was not brought about by a malevolent international policy in central Africa but by the lack of any coherent policy.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“There’s no way you can stop the international community from coming, given a situation like a genocide,â€� General Kagame once said to me. ‘But they may provide the wrong remedies to our problems. On the one hand, they admit that a genocide took place in Rwanda, but they don’t seem to understand that someone was responsible for it, that someone planned and executed it. That’s why we get confused when there are insinuations that we should negotiate. When you ask, ‘with whom?â€� they cannot tell you. They can’t quite bring themselves to say that we should negotiate with the people who committed genocide. Of course, in the long run they create a bigger problem, because genocide can be made to seem less and less visible as a very big crime that people should be hunted for and prosecuted.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“Pretending that the locals ran the Western NGOs was a way to entice donors, grassroots was no longer a true goal but a buzzword. Sadly, the goal was not to empower true local leadership, but to find token locals to be token champions with no real decision-making power...
But I always knew true, long-term change cannot happen without involving the community.”
― Kennedy Odede, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum

“Today, the qualifications required
for senior positions within NGOs reflect the evolution of those activists
who have also become managers: trained in law, business administration,
or finance, experienced, with a good capacity to “liaise� with political
circles or the business community, their profile often does not substantially
differ from those of corporate managers.”
― Nicolas Guilhot

“Whether the labor unions and the socialists yesterday, or NGOs and
human rights activists today, these forces increasingly tend to provide the
external envelope of a power reshaping polities, societies, and economies on
a global scale according to the prescriptions of a new reason of State.”
― Nicolas Guilhot, The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order

“We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giving us things, they do not want to touch us or for us to touch them.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“We are careful not to touch the NGO people, though, because we can see that even though they are giving us things, they do not want to touch us or for us to touch them.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“Living in a world where actors are invited to Literature fests, writers are invited to film festivals & NGOs invited to entrepreneur summits.”
― Nitya Prakash

“To a social worker working for other is not a job, it is a joy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Do not hope to evade any illness or death, for they are crucial reminders of the transience of this life, and you are only sojourners on this world.”
― Francis O' Joseph, Memloots: The Exposition