#hum

That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#humor #death

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#complexion #god-given #human #human being #i

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#humanity #moves #progress

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#activity #affords #anyone #else #going

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#contradictions #human #human life #life #system

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#ends #his #human #human life #invent

I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#also #america #among #analyze #diversity

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#am #basically #best #capitalism #conservative

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#america #black #country #ever #founded