Quotes About Humanity

Africa's rock art is the common heritage of all Africans, but it is more than that. It is the common heritage of humanity.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Recordé a todos, una y otra vez, que la lucha por la liberación no había sido una batalla contra otros grupos u otros colores de piel, sino contra un sistema represivo.

we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity.

stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

No race can prosper till it learns That there is as much dignity In tilling a field As in writing a poem. —Booker T. Washington

it was harder than others to remember that evil was still front page news. Goodness and order were so much the norm they needn't be reported.

Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.

Anna… envied Joan's deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she'd been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.

Gossip, unless aimed or honed sharp like a weapon, was natural to human beings. It showed interestin oe's fellows, interest in the well being of the tribe. "Gossip was a way to learn taboos, pass on warnings, share the burden fo being human among many so the onus of bearing it alone would fall on no one person. " Molly said. From an Anna Pigeon Novel

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

He has consigned all men to disobedience, that He may have mercy upon all." (Romans 11:32, RSV)

Estas son las doce cualidades que le fueron dadas al hombre en la fundación del mundo. El deber del hombre es elevarlas al nivel de discipulado.

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Human-to-human cruelty is worse than that of beast to human. Worse still is the cruelty among neighbors when it drives them To raise machetes, spears, arrows, and clubs against one another.

El mundo no tiene corazón. —Entonces hay que cambiar el mundo. Darle

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has ended up homogenizing humanity.

I loved you once is among the saddest lines in humanity.

And because he hadn't considered attaching blame, because he lived outside of the jurisdiction of all judgement and thought everyone was always doing their best, Ganga put a hand on Christy's shoulder and squeezed.

Listen, here's a human being who has suffered for love. It said Here's a heart aching, and that ache was large enough, urgent and familiar enough, for you all to feel it and by feeling participate in something you yourself were either too timid, closed or unlucky to have known personally, or had known in the long ago of your own innocence over which you had since grown the skin necessary to tolerate the loss and stay living.

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.