Quotes about Humanity

As I left Calcutta, it occurred to me that I was returning to a land of lepers, a land of people who had forgotten how to feel, to laugh, to cry, a land haunted by numbness. Could we learn to feel again?

Desmond Tutu, a South African bishop and leader in the movement to end apartheid, said, "I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, 'Now is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta." I

Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.