Quotes About Humanity

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

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.

The President last night had a dream. He was in a party of plain people and as it became known who he was they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking man." The President replied, "Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

I'd become aware of human complexity--that's a kinder word than "deceit.

How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.

American ambulance crews] salvaged people we'd never see in Missing, because no one would have tied to bring them to a hospital. Judging someone to be beyond help never crossed the minds of police, firemen, or doctors here.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks

You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

That's the funny thing about America - the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others." p 405

I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.

Philipose quotes Gandhi: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.

As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by"—her voice broke as she thought of Sister Mary Joseph Praise—"by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.