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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech, October 3, 1952
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.: Millard Fuller, founder and president, Habitat for Humanity International
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.: Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006), The Affluent Society (1958)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), The Need for Roots (1949)

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