"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing"
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Her most pointed choice is “obligation,” not “charity.” Charity flatters the giver; obligation implicates them. She’s reframing aid from a feel-good option into a debt created by interdependence and uneven distribution. “Those who have” isn’t just rich individuals; it’s the comfortable West, consumer societies, anyone buffered from scarcity by systems that often rely on someone else’s cheap labor, unstable politics, or extracted resources. The sentence structure mirrors that moral gravity: broad history, tightened geography, unavoidable duty.
Context matters. Hepburn’s public life as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador gave her a platform that could have been pure image management. Instead, she uses celebrity as a delivery system for an argument: in a connected world, compassion is no longer private virtue; it’s public responsibility.
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| Topic | Justice |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hepburn, Audrey. (2026, January 18). Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-the-world-has-existed-there-has-been-4442/
Chicago Style
Hepburn, Audrey. "Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-the-world-has-existed-there-has-been-4442/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/since-the-world-has-existed-there-has-been-4442/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
