Quotes About Humanity

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

All go free when multitudes offend.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.