Quotes About Humanity

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Moyo kabla ya silaha

If you want to know one of my most fundamental convictions, it is that I am completely non-racialist. I do not understand racialism at all.

We had to break those laws or agree to the slaveholder's image of us: three fifths of a human being.

Maybe we were together some other time. I can't think when, I said. You tried not to look at me. Maybe five million years ago. People weren't even people back then.

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

You'd think, given the blood we see, that there's a great war going on out in the world. Just the one inside of bodies, the new girl says.

El mundo tiene suficientes tragedias como para que no sea necesario recurrir a las maldiciones en busca de explicación.

But this isn't human! When has this country ever been human, Abelard? You're the historian. You of all people should know that.

one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.

It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would God want from me, if there is a God? The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in all of us.

Who is the monster now?

He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.

The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in all of us.

By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

History is more than data, more than facts, more than science and scholarship. These things are merely the means to a greater end. History is a story—the story of ourselves. Where do we come from? How have we survived? How can we avoid the mistakes of the past? Do we matter, and if we do, what is our proper place upon the earth? I shall put the question another way: Who are we?

The war—the real war, the one that had been going on for a thousand years and would go on for a thousand thousand more—the war between Us and Them, between the Haves and the Have-Nots, between my gods and your gods, whoever you are—would be fought by men like Richards: men with faces you didn't notice

Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's?

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.