Friday Quotes: Humanity

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used everything you gave me.” — ERMA BOMBECK

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” April 6, 1859 – ABRAHAM LINCOLN  in a Letter to Henry Pierce **

 

 Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. — Eleanor Roosevelt, Remarks at the United Nations, March 27, 1953 **

 

  **Abe L. quote from http://www.nps.gov/abli/forteachers/upload/LIncolnQuotesonSlavery.pdf  and E.Roosevelt quote from http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/who-is-er/er-quotes/

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