Quotes About Humanity

Instead of people thinking, 'Oh God, look at this terrible refugee crisis; we must do our bit', there's a lot of people thinking, 'How can we get out of doing our bit and find reasons not to provide sanctuary for these people?'

I've identified all my life with refugees.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

We need to protect immigrants who come here seeking a better life, rather than turning our backs on refugees and closing our borders and our hearts to others.

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

It never gets old watching someone receive their first pair of glasses and regain their vision and their life.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

Why is it that the king can do no wrong? This shows they do not regard the king as being a human. But the king can do wrong.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

There's gotta be a human being in everybody, regardless of what they do or what people think they did.

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

We should love people, care about people regardless of where they come from.

Every life - regardless of background or gender - has equal value.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Regardless of what I was and who I am, above all, the most important thing is to remain human.

I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.