Quotes About Humanity

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

I don't believe in borders, I find them boring. And I don't see any difference between any person.

I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.

I believe we can build a human economy where people are the bottom line.

Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

Sometimes I just want to sit in my boxer shorts and cry. That's what being a human is.

One of the reasons boxing is one of the greatest things to happen to my life is because it made me human again.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

What I want to do is encourage women to take on this incredibly exciting and fun challenge to use their brains for the benefit of humanity but through science and technology.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

I feel like breaking barriers is necessary because man created barriers, which keep us separated as human beings.

I'm not the best. I'm not the brightest, but we all have our problems.

The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

I don't understand why or how we can bully each other.

Bullying has been around since humans have been around, I think. I think it is wrong.

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic.

In the past, leaders of both parties have been able to reach across the partisan divide. They succeeded by retaining their own humanity and recognizing the same in their political opponents.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

We are human beings, at the end of the day. Success and failure are a part and parcel of our life.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Let's not judge. Let's draw inspiration from each other's stories - successes and failures - and realize we're all connected.