#human

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#human-experience #identity #journey-in-life #journeying #race

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In accepting the humanity of the black race, the white people will not be giving accommodation to an alien people; it will be receiving into itself half of its own experience, vital and indispensable to it, which it has so far denied at great cost. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#racism #experience

I didn't want this man touching me in those places. It wasn't that he was being inappropriate, it was just more that he obviously didn't view me as a person, let alone a scared person with actual feelings. He just saw me as yet another scientific specimen there for his own experimenting. I squeezed my eyes shut, cringing the entire time. ↗

— Jessica Verdi

#chronic-illness #dehumanization #doctors #hiv #experience

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #humanism #science #faith

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. ↗

— John Coltrane

#humanity #music #soul #faith

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#faith

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. ↗

— José Rizal

#humanity #faith

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. ↗

— Sam Harris

#atheism #belief #ethics #humanism #religion

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character ↗

— Robert Browning

#paracelsus #robert-browning #faith

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons. ↗

— John Paul II

#human-sexuality #theology #theology-of-the-body #faith