Common Humanity Quotes - Page 2

• We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Forgiving, Together, Needs

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• Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Important, Divides, Humanity

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Recovery, Upheaval

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.

  Angela Bassett

  Hair, Skin Tone, Skins

  "'The Rosa Parks Story': Angela Bassett Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

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• That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

  Rob Bell

  Cities, Differences, Diversity

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Military, Decision, Support

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.

  Robert Breault

  Letting Go, Judging, Making A Difference

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• Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Book, Messages

  "Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?" by Walter Dean Myers, www.nytimes.com. March 15, 2014.

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• Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Violence, Doe

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• What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.

  Allan Boesak

  Brother, Children, Blood

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Music, Peace, People

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• I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.

  Glenn Close

  Character, Thinking, Knowing

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• At the southern tip of the continent, a rich reward is in the making, an invaluable gift is in the preparation, for those who suffered in the name of all humanity when they sacrificed everything - for liberty, peace, human dignity and human fulfillment.
  The value of our shared reward will and must be measured by the joyful peace which will triumph, because of the common humanity that bonds both black and white into one human race, will have said to each one of us that we shall all live like the children of paradise.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Black And White, Names

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• That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Country, Race, Land

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 442), 1895.

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• Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

  Cat Stevens

  Healing, Way Forward, Looks

  "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.

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• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Blood, Class

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• The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Christmas, Sweet, Heart

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• Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mistake, Moving, Talking

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Aug 03, 2010

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• Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

  Martin Sheen

  Pain, Emotional, People

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• My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Moving, Commitment

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Names, Community

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

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• The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Definitions

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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