30 Powerful Images That Send a Clear Message

30 Powerful Images That Send a Clear Message

VIA Higher Perspectives

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but some pictures are far more powerful than others. The pictures featured below capture human condition and highlight some of the worst and best moments of mankind’s modern existence.

Some of the pictures may fill you with happiness and joy, while others are going to upset and sadden you. However, this wide range of emotion is what makes these images so powerful. We hope these images will remind everyone that our world could always use a tad more compassion, love, and understanding.

We always try to credit every photographer possible, but sometimes it can be nearly impossible to figure out where some images came from. Please let us know in the comments if you know the missing image credits!

Some parents, likely now in their 70’s, still looking for their missing child.

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Image credits: reddit.com

An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

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Image credits: Rafiq Maqbool / AP

During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

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Image credits: Biswaranjan Rout / AP

Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

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Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein

Update: Reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945.

Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009

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Image credits: Adri Tambunan

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

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Image credits: Gary Cosby Jr. / AP

The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

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Image credits: retronaut.com

A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011

 

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Image credits: Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari / AP

Flower power

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Image credits: Bernie Boston

Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India

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Image credits: Tsering Topgyal / AP

Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000

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Image credits: STR News / Reuters

An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

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Image credits: englishrussia.com

“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

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Image credits: Claud Detloff

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.

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Image credits: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images

Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives.

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Image credits: Brian Sokol

Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke.

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Image credits: Jesco Denzel

Sunset on Mars

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Image credits: nasa.gov

Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

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Image credits: Taslima Akhter

Alcoholic father with his son

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Image credits: imgur.com

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months

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Image credits: Louie Favorite

Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”

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Image credits:  Richard Drew / AP

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

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Image credits: abc.net.au

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

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Image credits: Nevine Zaki

Young man just found out his brother was killed

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Image credits: Nhat V. Meyer

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

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Image credits: drugoi.livejournal.com

Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.

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Image credits: salvemasnossascriancas.blogspot.com

Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

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Image credits: Vojage-Vojage

Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

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Image credits: James Stanfield

Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

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Image credits: kligon5

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