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Quotes About Humanity

There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
~ Robert Frost
Women and men are equal human beings.
~ Gloria Steinem
But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.
~ David Gemmell
A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.
~ Eleanor Smeal
Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.
~ Frederick Lenz
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?
~ Gene Stratton-Porter
You know, I've always considered women to be people.
~ George R. R. Martin
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
~ Gloria Steinem
But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.
~ James Russell Lowell
You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.
~ JoBeth Williams
I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
~ John Banville
If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.
~ John F. Kennedy
We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
~ John F. Kerry
We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
~ Kate Millett
For me, to be a feminist is to answer the question 'Are women human?' with a yes.
~ Katha Pollitt
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
~ Kevin Costner
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
~ Kevin Watkins
I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.
~ Kola Boof
It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.
~ Kristina Schroder