Common Humanity Quotes
42 quotes by 34 authors
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
— Hillary Clinton
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Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity.…
— Martin Sheen
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But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our…
— Mark Twain
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It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
— Sara Maitland
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This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of…
— Barack Obama
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Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether…
— Margaret H. Marshall
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The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century…
— William J. Clinton
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[P]art of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we…
— Barack Obama
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Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their…
— Barack Obama
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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and…
— Christopher Dawson
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When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of any nation because…
— Oscar Arias
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Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?
— Walter Dean Myers
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The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.
— Nancy Astor
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Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common…
— Barack Obama
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Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.
— Dalai Lama
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If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a…
— Dalai Lama
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Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.
— Mairead Corrigan
Who Wrote These Common Humanity Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 42 Common Humanity Quotes, led by these top contributors: