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Human Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
- Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the…
- I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or…
- The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether…
- When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein