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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, War, Unfair

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• Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

  Margaret Atwood

  Diversity, Imagination, Oppression

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

  Maya Angelou

  World, Citizens, Inheritance

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

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• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  Oprah Winfrey

  Expression, People, Goal

  Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Nature

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• To be human means to feel inferior.

  Alfred Adler

  Mean, Feels, Humans

  Alfred Adler (1998). “Social Interest: Adler's Key to the Meaning of Life”, Oneworld Publications Limited

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• To err is human, but it feels divine.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sexy, Clever

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

  Francis of Assisi

  Peace, Passion, Heart

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• Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Differences, Looks

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.304, U of Nebraska Press

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• Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sacrifice, Being Sad, Purpose

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• Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• I shall remain a wanderer until mankind has learned the way of peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Way, Mankind

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.187, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Book, World, Anarchy

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1970). “God and the State”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

  Marcus Garvey

  Moving, Progress, Attraction

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

  John Brunner

  Names, Machines, Humans

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.545, Macmillan

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• If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'

  Dave Barry

  Life And Love, Business, Humor

  Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• As we, the world, and the way we live have become more complex, we've moved further away from living in alignment with our human spirit and with the earth.

  Lauren Mackler

  World, Earth, Way

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• Human kind cannot bear much reality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Reality, Bears, Kind

  "In Light of India". Book by Octavio Paz, Chapter 1, www.nytimes.com. 1995.

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• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mind, Weakness, Looks

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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• An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

  William Cowper

  Crush, Reptiles, May

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.340

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• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Charity

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• The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

  Sean MacBride

  Preparation, Nuclear, Fundamentals

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• The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

  Georg Buchner

  Century, Stride

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Fate, Personal Integrity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.62, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

  David Hockney

  Distance, Together, Remove

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