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 In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?
  Mary McCarthy

 [I]t is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?
  William Morris

 Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?
  John Keats

 Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has 'cast up' in my time - this art by which even the 'poor' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent

 Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

 None of us are rich. It's not like we're some upper class people coming in and helping the poor. We're poor too.

 (Habitat for Humanity) is working on a three-state program down there, once the time comes, to build housing for the poor, ... The Mayor wanted to direct it for an immediate need, which is Red Cross, as well as a long-term need and program, which is Habitat for Humanity.

 Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
  Francis Bacon

 Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

 It's really questioning where humanity is going, and is there a place for the way we perceive things now? Does that have to remain the same? Is anything constant? The world is constantly evolving, as is humanity. It's really about evolution and taking charge of humanity's next step.

 Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

 Most of the people who are affected are poor black people. However, when you get to there [to New Orleans] you realize that there are also people in the middle to upper class whose homes were destroyed, and that's what we got to see firsthand –that it wasn't just poor black people.

 The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
  Mary McCarthy

 The humanity of our country is at stake if it is truly against the law to transport someone for emergency medical purpose. What's happened to `Give me your tired and your poor?'


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