#hum

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ↗

— Tina Turner

#american #church #did #go #had

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #extraordinary #hope #human #human life

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#before #celebrated #counts #existed #family

And every human being is precious. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #human #human being #precious

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#aspirations #ceased #god #human #never

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#aspects #developed #existence #holistic #human

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#far #humans #makes #maybe #never

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#contradictions #fascinating #human #human behavior #maddening