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Humanity

noun

(pl. humanities)

The quality of being humane.

The quality of being human. Synonyms: humanness, manhood.

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth. Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world. "She always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women"

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"Humanity" Quotes from Famous Books

... braided her hair at night. It was a dream that some day I should be great. She had a different idea of greatness from mine, and we used to argue the question. I don't think she ever wanted me to be President of the United States or to hold high office; she wanted me to do something which would help humanity. She used to wish that I might preach or teach; she was such a good little thing. And I would tell her that none of these vocations were for me; I must win fame in a different way. I wanted to invent something which would make the world stare. Perhaps that's the ...

— Glory of Youth • Temple Bailey

... shed their crocodile tears over the woes and wrongs of the African race in our country; we know that they are a nation of murderers, thieves and robbers. Their religion is little else, but legalized hypocrisy. Justice and humanity never yet found a place in their moral code. It looks well in them to talk about oppression in other lands; but so it is the world over. Men as vile as crime can make them, will arrogate to themselves the right to ...

— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... dollars found their way into the hands of charity, but then his desire to aid and gratify humanity was ...

— Hidden Treasures - Why Some Succeed While Others Fail • Harry A. Lewis

... action, Joubert reflected the fighting characteristics of his people, of whom he has been the most conspicuous military representative, honoured by friend and foe alike for his fearlessness, his intelligence, and his humanity. Courage of the highest proof as regards personal danger, but not the courage that throws away the scabbard, much less that which burns its ships. The hunter, meeting superior strength with superior cunning, without even the very least willingness ...

— Story of the War in South Africa - 1899-1900 • Alfred T. Mahan

... be observed that I was decidedly getting on in the quality of my Mentors, for, as regarded morals and humanity, my old pirate and slaver friend was truly as a lamb and an angel of light compared to Navone. And I will further indicate, as this book will prove, that if I was not at the age of twenty-three the most accomplished young scoundrel in all Europe, it was not for want of such ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

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