Quotes about Humanity
Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.
— George Whitefield
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.
— George Whitefield
Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man
— Khalil Gibran
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
— Walt Whitman
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
— Albert Camus
I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.
— Ava DuVernay
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
— Khalil Gibran
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel