Human Family Quotes

• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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• The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

  Khalil Gibran

  Country, Tribes, Humans

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.29, Editora Dracaena

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• The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Family, Friends, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

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• We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God's family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Inspirational Love, Gay

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Together, Done, Violence

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Trust, Perfect, Diversity

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• We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family

  Dalai Lama

  Race, Different, May

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• We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Pain, Big Families, Bigs

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• The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Cutting, Membership, Common Experience

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• My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Differences, Together, Legacy

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• If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

  Desmond Tutu

  Destiny, Common Humanity, Oneness

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• When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, Law, People

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one of us does not wish to suffer. This is why, whenever I have the opportunity, I try to draw people's attention to what as members of the human family we have in common and the deeply interconnected nature of our existence and welfare.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Opportunity, People

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• No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Family, Self, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

  Henri Nouwen

  Forgiveness, Names, People

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• The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be? Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Believe, Men

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• Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

  Michael Jackson

  Love Is, Legacy, Inheritance

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• Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• As we begin to comprehend that the earth itself is a kind of manned spaceship hurtling through the infinity of space ~ it will seem increasingly absurd that we have not better organized the life of the human family.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Nature, Space

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• As we enter the 21st Century it is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village. It is now clear that our future sustainability on this planet calls for radical advances in our rational and human capacities to negotiate the powerful forces between worlds as the human family moves towards a sustainable global civilization.

  Ashok Gangadean

  Powerful, Philosophy, Moving

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• God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.

  Pope Pius XII

  Independent, Dedication, Self

  "America", Vol. 100, by America Press, (p. 121), 1958.

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• I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  Relationship, Patriotism, Consciousness

  Rosika Schwimmer “Rosika Schwimmer, Appelant Vs. United States of America, Appellee”

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• The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

  Desmond Tutu

  Family, Oneness, Humans

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Impact, Environmental, Attention

  Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople on the Occasion of the Seventh Symposium of the Religion, Science and the Environment Movement, w2.vatican.va. September 1, 2007.

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