Quotes about Humanity
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not merely interested in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men. He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.
— Mother Teresa
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is lo
— Martin Luther King, Jr.