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This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. -- Malcolm X
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. -- Malcolm X
We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family. -- Hans Kung
I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. -- Theodore Bikel
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. -- Frank Knox
No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. -- Peace Pilgrim
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. -- Desmond Tutu
The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge. -- Ban Ki-moon
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. -- James K. Polk
Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. -- Victor Hugo
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. -- Bayard Taylor
Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care. -- Sam Brownback
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel. -- Wilfrid Laurier
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. -- Wole Soyinka
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us? -- Ban Ki-moon
We are one human family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mankind is one human family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. -- Robert Barron
Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The family is the first essential cell of human society. -- Pope John XXIII
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. -- Barbara Bush
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. -- Khalil Gibran
I had the human rights life, and I had the family business life. -- Sanjay Rawal
The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. -- Pope Francis
What I found interesting is that it's human nature to have a family. -- Penelope Spheeris
Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world. -- Henry Clay
Climate change is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family. -- Ban Ki-moon
Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance. -- Michael Jackson
Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it. -- Shere Hite
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin. -- Joseph Brodsky
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. -- Rosika Schwimmer
All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. -- Amy Winehouse
We may be different races and religions but we are all part of the same human family -- Dalai Lama
The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever. -- Russell M. Nelson
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. -- Margaret Way
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. -- Don Marquis
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family... -- Frances Wright
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. -- Adam Weishaupt
Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. -- Freya Stark
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. -- Orlando Bloom
As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family. -- Pope Francis
Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. -- Toni Cade Bambara
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. -- Margaret Clarkson
Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family. -- Ronald Reagan
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. -- Mitch Albom
I would like to be remembered as a responsible human being who handled business while also taking care of his family. -- Rob Brown
To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships. -- Mark E. Petersen
People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth. -- Sathya Sai Baba
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. -- Kristan Higgins
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo. -- Lillian B. Rubin
My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference. -- Angelique Kidjo
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. -- Abraham Lincoln
My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature. -- Susan Dorothea White
When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family. -- Julia Alvarez
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals. -- Yann Martel
When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears. -- Paul Lutus
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. -- Imelda Marcos
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. -- Maya Angelou
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family. -- Mairead Corrigan
Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore. -- Wayne White
True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station. -- Henry David Thoreau
I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family. -- Brigham Young
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family. -- Morihei Ueshiba
We may have different points of arguments from perspectives of belief, faith and religion.But we must not hate each other. We are one human family. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. -- Heber J. Grant
Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling. -- Dalai Lama
This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted -- Henry Hyde
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget. -- Ann Curry
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality. -- Rachel Cusk
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. -- Anne Lamott
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family. -- Duane Elgin
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter. -- Robin Williams
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My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. -- Robin Williams
The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater. -- Charlene Weir
There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. -- Winston Churchill
We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family. -- Samael Aun Weor
Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place. -- Jim Nollman
I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time. -- Randall Robinson
A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. -- Philip Berrigan
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life. -- Thomas Keating
I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal. -- Dalai Lama
Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family -- Ban Ki-moon
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My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family. -- Bayard Rustin
May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. -- Zachary Taylor
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved. -- Henri Nouwen

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