Howard Jacobson Quotes

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society.

The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren't ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.

I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

The motive power of democracy is love.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

I believe in people, especially suffering people.