Quotes About Humanity

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Nobody likes it when people say bad things about you, because we're all human beings and we have feelings. Ultimately, though, I always try to make sure that my happiness doesn't depend on what people say but on what I feel in my heart.

It's challenging, in a way, but if you depict anyone with all the colors of human emotion and show those moments - with their families, with their children - the worst of us have elements of real humanity.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.

We deserve the same things that cis women do, the same things that other humans do, from our social lives to our families to love.

There is not a country on earth whose people don't deserve to be free and safe.

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.

Everyone deserves compassion.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

Design is people.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

I didn't know people can be good. I didn't know people are designed to be good and help one another.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Can't really despise people you don't know.