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Quotes About Humanity

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
~ Maya Angelou
It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
~ Nelson Mandela
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
~ Robert Breault
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
~ Saul Bellow
Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.
~ Sho Baraka
I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.
~ Stevie Nicks
Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.
~ Tim O'Brien
It happens that we DON'T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.
~ Tim Rice
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
~ Umberto Guidoni
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
~ William Gaddis
Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more
~ Yousef Munayyer
Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.
~ Elie Wiesel
Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
~ Ellen Goodman
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
~ Garry Trudeau
Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.
~ George Monbiot
Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
~ Gertrude Stein
I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.
~ Hassan Blasim
History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.
~ Henry Miller
Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
~ James Madison
You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.
~ Joe Bradley
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe