Human Family Quotes - Page 2

• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

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• Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

  Ronald Reagan

  Holiday, Celebration, Individual

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• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

  Theodore Bikel

  Equality, Causes, Humans

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

  Henry Hyde

  Mean, Abortion, Understanding

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• Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Sun, Worship

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• Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

  Jim Nollman

  Love, Rocks, Gardening

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• My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.137, A&C Black

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• The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

  Thomas Keating

  Adventure, Emotional, Sobriety

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

  Frances Wright

  Members, Jew, Theist

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of Popular Lectures”, p.148

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• When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

  Paul Lutus

  Ocean, Tears, World

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• Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Years, Justice, Mind

  "Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas". August 09, 2012.

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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• As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

  Julia Ward Howe

  War, Home, Mean

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Garden, God's Creation

  Pope Francis' address to the young people on the sports field of Santo Tomás University, Manila, w2.vatican.va. January 18, 2015.

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• Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Faces

  Ban Ki-moon's Remarks at 39th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, www.un.org. August 10, 2009.

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• Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.

  Hazel Rochman

  Book, Differences, People

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Responsibility, Trying, Telling The Truth

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• Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Creating, Risk

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• Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common heritage, a few simple beliefs recur: that all are indeed members of the same human family, that all share in responsibility for the others, that each is capable of responding directly to divine guidance. To seek to translate these into practical action with regard to soil or petroleum or the fish of the sea is not necessarily to do what is directly effective in changing society.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Simple, Sea

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