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“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

“The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.”

Humans Country Race Century Worship Human Race Twentieth Century

Book:Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)

“For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.”

World Humans Two Problem Human Beings Groups Century Solutions Fairs Acknowledge Divided

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.”

Thinking Humans Has Beens Facts Sides Human Beings Emotion Century Keys Elements Intellectual Aspect Tragic Being Human 20th Century Aspects Of Life

Author:Bill Viola

“This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.”

Humans Two Century Events University Obvious Backgrounds Recognition Instruction Inclusion

Book:The Oriental Institute

Source: The Oriental Institute

“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”

Should Humans Women Century Female Thirds Lays Forty Eggs Crocodiles

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

Humans Has Beens Age Past Race Vision Failing Society Century Human Nature Goodness Noble Doctrine Golden Human Race Mischief Whim Golden Age

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

Years Humans Kind Past Energy Human Beings Millions Environment Happened Rocks Century Ocean Climate Change Scales Experiments Atmosphere Carbon Large Scale

Author:Roger Revelle

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

Source: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

Humans Has Beens Ends Enough Problem Turns Wealth Human Beings Century Smart Average Solve 21st Century Life Span Average Life

Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon

“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.”

“The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.”

Humans Spirit Century Example Materials Independence Limitation Human Spirit Twentieth Century Marxist

Book:Antonio Gramsci

Source: Antonio Gramsci

“As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the "human religious ideal" inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the "christian religious ideal".”

World Firsts Humans Seems Christian Lasts Certain Values Term Religious Results Moral Century Elements Ideals Sight Stress Tendencies Moral Values Incline

Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.”

Humans Ideas Law Political Natural Race Rights Century Members Enlightenment Ill Civil Rights Human Race Assertion Natural Law

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.”

Humans Ends Century Foundation Fundamentals Disability Technological Human Experience Bionics

Author:Hugh Herr

“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.”

“The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests upon an extreme position in a continuum. The Cartesian tradition, formulated explicitly in the seventeenth century, but developed in "folk" and other versions throughout human history no doubt, holds that other animals are little more than unfeeling machines, with only humans enjoying "consciousness," however defined.”

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.”

Years Firsts Humans Problem Turns Names Term Realizing Common Steps Our Lives Century Movement Six Faults Motherhood Human Life Forty First Steps Eighty Expectancy Life Expectancy

Author:Betty Friedan

“How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.”

Ifs Knows Humans Century Good Things Nonsense Do You Know

Book:We

Source: We

“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”

“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”

Ifs Humans Persons Art Lasts Artist Consciousness Century Dangerous Position Activity Tasks Secular Frontiers Unprecedented Stature Human Activity Autonomous Secular Society

Author:Susan Sontag

“After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.”

Giving Mind Firsts Humans May Stills Ends Hands Spirit Prayer Century Revolution Praying Program Mercy Accounts Twenties Steadfast Sketching Human Family Scientific Revolution Good Prayer

Author:Freeman Dyson

“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.”

“I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.”

Thinking Needs Humans Consciousness Century Revolution Species Reactions Evolve Human Species

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

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