Quotes About Humanity

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

We want to end this misery of the Palestinian people in order for us really to live with dignity as human beings in an independent state side by side with the Israeli state.

I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.

I can walk without shoes and live without cloths, but I cannot live without dignity even for a second.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity." - Dami K.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

Education is critical for people to become compassionate. If you don't know the problem and you don't know the reality, how can you help?

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

All of us are human beings and we evolve.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.