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- 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)
- It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race.
- Clarence Jordan
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
- The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
- John P. Grier
- A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
- Dominique de Menil
- Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems.
- UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children" (1995)
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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