Shel Silverstein Quotes

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

All lives have an equal value.

To re-establish faith in fundamental human rights, in the sanctity and ultimate value of human personality, in the equal rights of men and women of nations large and small.

I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.

Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

As Elders, we are fully committed to the principle that all human beings are of equal worth. You will see that we highlight equality for girls and women - not just women's rights. That is important as girls, especially adolescent girls, have been almost invisible in debates on equal rights. Yet it is in adolescence that events can have a huge effect on a girl's life.

The same night awaits us all.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--