Quotes About Humanity

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

Even before I had had time to really think things through, I realized we must not forget. If all of us forgot, the same thing might happen again, in 20 or 50 or 100 years.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.