humanity Quotes

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.