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Humans Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right…
- The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
- We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty…
- In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of…
- As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this…
- We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we…
- But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can…
- That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no…
- You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back…
- Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud..
- 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…
- Racism is a blight on the human conscience
- In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and…
- My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
- These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
- The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
- As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.
- In Africa there is a concept known as 'ubuntu' - the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if…
- The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one…
- Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.
- We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
- This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved…
- Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed,…
- No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — 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
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong