Human Quotes

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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. — Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal… — Simone de Beauvoir
A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. — Simone de Beauvoir
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned… — Hugo Black
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. — Franz Boas
Human beings are curious by nature. — Aristotle
Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being. — Lydia M. Child
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer… — Shirley Chisholm
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized… — John Henrik Clarke
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman. — Eldridge Cleaver
...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so… — Hillary Clinton
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far… — Betty Friedan
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in… — John Howard Griffin
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from… — Edith Hamilton
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. — Hu Shih
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens
We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old… — Suzanne La Follette

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