Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child."
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Humanity
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"Good memories are our second chance at happiness."
Cyrus the Great
King
"Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die."
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"I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity."
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"Call me crazy but I imagine a world where we smile when we have low batteries, because that will mean we’re one bar closer to humanity."
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"We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'"
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"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."
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"There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us."
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"Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity."
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"If untouchability lives, humanity must die."
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"The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own."
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"A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest."
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"If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences."
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"Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity."
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"What greater gift than the love of a cat."
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"My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."
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"Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story."
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"It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own."
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"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."
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"To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity."
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"I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck."
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"Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them."
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"A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage."
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