"I am a human being before I am a race, a religion, and an occupation." -Kris Parker, a.k.a. KRS-ONE
"This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices,
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
Who know what it means to share food and shelter.
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past
Bringing people to communion.
This is a call to the never ending spirit
Of the common man, his essential decency and integrity,
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,
To face death and destruction and to rise again
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people."
-Algernon D. Black, former senior leader,
New York Society for Ethical Culture
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"My feeling is that there is nothing
in life but refraining from hurting others,
and comforting those that are sad."
-Olive Schreiner
"We need every human gift and cannot
afford to neglect any gift because
of artificial barriers of
sex or race or class
or national origin."
-Margaret Mead
"The fact that we are
human beings is infinitely
more important than
all the peculiarities that
distinguish human
beings from one another."
-Simone de Beauvoir
"Unity, not uniformity,
must be our aim. We
attain unity only through
variety. Differences
must be integrated, not
annihilated."
-M.P. Follett
"In some extremely
important ways, people
are what you expect
them to be, or at least
they behave as you expect
them to behave."
-Naomi Weisstein
"Mankind will endure
when the world
appreciates the logic
of diversity."
-Indira Gandhi
"Exclusion is always dangerous.
Inclusion is the only safety
if we are to have a peaceful world."
-Pearl S. Buck
"When there is violence
against any person in
society, because he or she
is different, it threatens
us all. Only by speaking out
are any of us safe."
-Madeleine Kunin
"We have to face the fact
that either all of us are
going to die together or we
are going to learn to
live together, and if we
are to live together
we have to talk."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Let there be spaces
in your togetherness."
-Kahil Gibran
"We are inevitably our
brother's keeper because
we are our brother's brother.
Whatever affects one directly
affects all indirectly."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"While there is a lower class,
I am in it; while there is
a criminal element, I am of
it; while there is a soul
in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene V. Debs
---------------
I'm finally
ready to help.
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the suffering and the waste of the world.
This is a call to the human, not the perfect,
To those who know their own prejudices,
Who have no intention of becoming prisoners of their own limitations.
This is a call to those who remember the dreams of their youth,
Who know what it means to share food and shelter.
The care of children and those who are troubled,
To reach beyond barriers of the past
Bringing people to communion.
This is a call to the never ending spirit
Of the common man, his essential decency and integrity,
His unending capacity to suffer and endure,
To face death and destruction and to rise again
And build from the ruins of life.
This is the greatest call of all
The call to a faith in people."
-Algernon D. Black, former senior leader,
New York Society for Ethical Culture
------------------------------------
"My feeling is that there is nothing
in life but refraining from hurting others,
and comforting those that are sad."
-Olive Schreiner
"We need every human gift and cannot
afford to neglect any gift because
of artificial barriers of
sex or race or class
or national origin."
-Margaret Mead
"The fact that we are
human beings is infinitely
more important than
all the peculiarities that
distinguish human
beings from one another."
-Simone de Beauvoir
"Unity, not uniformity,
must be our aim. We
attain unity only through
variety. Differences
must be integrated, not
annihilated."
-M.P. Follett
"In some extremely
important ways, people
are what you expect
them to be, or at least
they behave as you expect
them to behave."
-Naomi Weisstein
"Mankind will endure
when the world
appreciates the logic
of diversity."
-Indira Gandhi
"Exclusion is always dangerous.
Inclusion is the only safety
if we are to have a peaceful world."
-Pearl S. Buck
"When there is violence
against any person in
society, because he or she
is different, it threatens
us all. Only by speaking out
are any of us safe."
-Madeleine Kunin
"We have to face the fact
that either all of us are
going to die together or we
are going to learn to
live together, and if we
are to live together
we have to talk."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Let there be spaces
in your togetherness."
-Kahil Gibran
"We are inevitably our
brother's keeper because
we are our brother's brother.
Whatever affects one directly
affects all indirectly."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"While there is a lower class,
I am in it; while there is
a criminal element, I am of
it; while there is a soul
in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene V. Debs
---------------
I'm finally
ready to help.