#human

By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors. ↗

— Laurent Dubois

#haiti #haitian-revolution #human-rights #revolution #freedom

Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems. ↗

— Brian Fikkert

#gospel-truth #humanity #poor-people #when-helping-hurts #freedom

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you? Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#freedom #humanity #liberty #mankind #self-determination

Subjects prize public tranquillity; citizens the freedom of the individual-the former prefer security of possessions, the latter security of person; the former want crimes to be punished, the latter want them prevented; subjects think it is a good thing to be feared by their neighbors, citizens prefer to be ignored by them; the former are satisfied so long as money circulates, the latter demand that the people shall have bread. ↗

— Rousseau

#freedom

Whatever else humanism is, it is emphatically not a movement towards freedom and expansion. It is the impulse of men who feel themselves simple, rustic, and immature, towards sophistication, urbanity, and ripeness. In a word, it is the most complete opposite we can find to the Romantic desire for the primitive and the spontaneous. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#freedom

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice... ↗

— Henry Lindell

#human-nature #illusion #freedom

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it. ↗

— George Eliot

#human-nature #funny

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself. ↗

— Rebecca Murphy

#inspirational #people-skills #tolerance #inspirational

The conception of each star was at the point of no return; of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#birth-of-stars #human-soul #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspire