Quotes about Humanity

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

There is a famine in America. Not a famine of food, but of love, of truth, of life.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take. It is perhaps unrealistic to hope that I can help give this nation any of those things, but that is what I believe I have to try to do.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else