They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

In order to appreciate and respect diversity we must first recognize and embrace our humanity.

I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

We smell the roses because we don’t want to smell our own humanity.

[...] and after those big strokes, what's to tell? We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far more in common than we do not have in common.