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Humanity Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which…
- It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of…
- The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
- There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...
- Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..
- It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
- To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is…
- In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if…
- Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial…
- I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is…
- Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be…
- The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably…
- Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider…
- For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity…
- We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to…
- To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
- I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward…
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- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt