#human being

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#being #give #human #human being #i

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us. ↗

— Billy Joel

#beings #completely #crazy #feel #human

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being. ↗

— Don Johnson

#being #human #human being #i #i am

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#any #being #burning #conscience #death

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ↗

— Pir Vilayat Khan

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What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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