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Desmond Tutu2 quotes
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are. — Desmond Tutu · 2000You will never be free until we are free. — Desmond Tutu · 1999Fred Rogers2 quotes
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related. — Fred Rogers · 2002Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person... Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many. — Fred Rogers · 2003Adlai Stevenson1 quote
We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave-to the ancient enemies of man-half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival for us all. — Adlai Stevenson · 1965Albert Schweitzer1 quote
Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. — Albert Schweitzer · 1949Barbra Streisand1 quote
People, people who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world. — Barbra Streisand · 1964Carl Sagan1 quote
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan · 1980Chris McCandless1 quote
Happiness only real when shared. — Chris McCandless · 2007Confucius1 quote
Moral force never dwells in solitude; it will always bring neighbors. — Confucius · 221 BCEdie Doyle1 quote
Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else? — Edie Doyle · 1954Edith Cavell1 quote
I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one. — Edith Cavell · 1915George Eliot1 quote
Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor. — George Eliot · 1872George Orwell1 quote
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does. — George Orwell · 1943Gloria Steinem1 quote
Imagine we are linked not ranked. — Gloria Steinem · 2021Harry Hay1 quote
We have to be people who set each other free. — Harry Hay · 1998Hesiod1 quote
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. — Hesiod · 700 BCItzhak Stern1 quote
Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire. — Itzhak Stern · 1993J.B. Priestley1 quote
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. — J.B. Priestley · 1945James Baldwin1 quote
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive. — James Baldwin · 1963John Donne1 quote
No man is an Island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. — John Donne · 1624John F. Kennedy1 quote
Ich bin ein Berliner. — John F. Kennedy · 1963John Muir1 quote
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. — John Muir · 1890Karl Marx1 quote
Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves. — Karl Marx · 1883Marcus Aurelius1 quote
Mankind have been created for the sake of one another. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Martin Luther King, Jr.1 quote
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1963Muhammad1 quote
O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. — Muhammad · 632Nelson Mandela1 quote
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 taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity. — Nelson Mandela · 1994Oliver Sacks1 quote
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. — Oliver Sacks · 2010Polybius1 quote
From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end. — Polybius · 117 BCPope John XXIII1 quote
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries. — Pope John XXIII · 1963Private Witt1 quote
Maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of, all faces are the same man. — Private Witt · 1998