“There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth.” WorldShouldHumansEarthNationsHuman BeingsCitizensAuthorityClaimsPropertySupremeAspirationSincereSoleGood WillObeyingLive Free Author:Mirra Alfassa
“Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.” IfsNeedsHumansEndsSocialGrowthCommunityHuman BeingsCitiesEnvironmentCenturyBuildingCitizensOrganizationAvailableDestructiveDominant21st CenturyConstructiveExplosivesNonprofitsSocial EnvironmentBuilding Community Author:Peter Drucker
“The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.” HumansChildrenOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsResponsibilityConditionsCitizensAdvantageAssumingDuesNeglected Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.” IfsMenWantYearsHumansHas BeensTwoReasonRealityTodayTogetherGivenHuman BeingsSpaceCitiesViolenceCitizensThousandProtectEqualYears AgoInventionRealmsConsiderationAggressiveBrotherhoodThousand YearsSymptomsBrotherhood Of Man Author:Robert Ardrey
“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.” HumansEasyParentHuman BeingsSonCitizensHusbandGood CitizenGood ParentGood HusbandGood Human Being Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.” HumansChristianWealthHuman BeingsCitizensRelationMisers Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“It used to be said in antislavery days that a people who would tacitly consent to the enslavement of 4,000,000 human beings were incapable of being just to each other, and I believe this same rule holds with regard to the injustice practiced by men towards women. So long as all men conspire to rob women of the citizen's right to perfect equality in all the privileges and immunities of our so-called "free" government, we can not expect these same men to be capable of perfect justice to each other.” PeopleMenBelieveHumansLongSaidGovernmentUsedI BelieveJusticeHuman BeingsPerfectCitizensCapableRegardInjusticePrivilegeEqualityUsed To BeIncapableCan NotConsentEnslavementImmunityFree Government Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.” HumansLooksCountryTodayMovingHuman BeingsCommonShareCitizensMoving ForwardOur Country Author:Clarence Thomas
“I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.” KnowsHumansHuman BeingsRightsCitizensDecided Author:Rosa Parks
“Being forcefully rattled out of our consumer mentality - our addiction to comfort and convenience can create an opportunity for us [people] to reconnect with what we really value and with the qualities of life that really can sustain us - which include reconnecting with our roles as citizens, community members, and human beings.” PeopleHumansValuesOpportunityCommunityHuman BeingsQualityRolesCitizensComfortMembersAddictionConsumersMentalityConvenienceQuality Of LifeReconnecting Author:Tim DeChristopher
“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” HumansStatesLanguageParentBornNaturalHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensConstitutionSovereigntyAllegianceOwing Author:John Bingham
“We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.” HumansEarthFacesNationsHuman BeingsClassCitizensCrossesSickTiredTreatedBordersImmigrantsVirtuousAmerican CitizensSecond Class Citizens Author:Mark Levin