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Quotes About Humanity

Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
~ Andrew Motion
Artists are the emotional historians of the world.
~ Richard Blanco
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.
~ Willie D
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
~ David Foreman
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at a horrific rate. We must understand that we can't buy it back.
~ William Kittredge
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.
~ Unknown
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
~ Julian Bond
I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.
~ Josephine Baker
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
~ Frederick Douglass
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
~ David Allan Coe
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
~ Sophia Loren
God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.
~ Unknown
Mortals are equal; their mask differs.
~ Voltaire
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In the dark, equality for all of mankind couldn't seem brighter.
~ Robert M. Hensel
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
~ Aldous Huxley
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
~ Olive Schreiner
In the end we must, I think, somehow conclude that they have as much right to this planet as we have.
~ Prince Philip