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Quotes About Humanity

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history.
~ Cornell Capa
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
~ Karl Kraus
History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.
~ William Arthur Ward
To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.
~ Thomas Gray
All men are born good.
~ Confucius
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
~ Walter Lang
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
~ Ernest Gaines
The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
~ Erich Fromm
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
~ Theodor Adorno
As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
~ Morarji Desai
Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.
~ Eric Voegelin
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
~ Joseph Stalin
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.
~ Isaiah
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~ Saul Bellow