My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

The American people have not become heartless.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

You can stroke people with words.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

It’s often just enough to be with someone. I don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You’re not alone.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.