#uma

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

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

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. ↗

— Josh Billings

#gout #i #know #lord #medicine

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#human #human voice #nice #singing #voice

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#concerns #concrete #contributions #criteria #economic

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ↗

— Dave Davies

#became #beings #control #controlling #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

I would say I'm humanly engaged. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#humanly #i #say #would

Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which has given ever more status to senior reporters, presumably because it is cheaper to do that than to offer higher pay. ↗

— Evan Davis

#although #anything #bbc #because #being