#human

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ↗

— Steven Biko

#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. ↗

— Steven Biko

#bestow #face #gift #greatest #human

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ↗

— Angela Davis

#break #convert #dangerous #designed #each

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nature

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#humanity #philosophy #religion #change

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#element #guys #human #human element #i

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#al gore #back #being #bunch #chance

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#awakening #been #country #first #goes

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. ↗

— Paul Begala

#answer #being #citizen #clinton #his