38 quotes
“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."
— Maya Angelou
"..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another."
— Dean Koontz
"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
— Albert Schweitzer
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
— Will Rogers
"So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him."
— Will Durant
"The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion."
— Thomas Paine
"A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones"
— Nelson Mandela
"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
— Ludwig von Mises
"War is a defeat for humanity."
— Pope John Paul II
"Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."
— John Locke
"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."
"Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint."
— Erich Fromm
"No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings."
— Diderot
"Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton."
"'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."
— Dag Hammarskjöld
"Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die."
— Bono
"To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us."
— Anne Rice
"The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay."
— Victor Hugo
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."