„Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.“

— Confucius
„However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.“
— Rollo May
„Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete.“
— Malcolm X