If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face.

Those who perceive in themselves... the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, painter, musician, and actor feel at the same time an obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbour and the humanity as a whole.

Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values and identityof foreign cultures. Tourism improves relationships between individualsand peoples; when they are cordial, respectful, and based on solidarity theyconstitute, as it were, an open door to peace and harmonious coexistence

Learning to think rigorously, so as to act rightly and to serve humanity better.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war...

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.

Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others.

When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.

The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.