“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane” is a quote by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial activist famous for his nonviolent worldview) which means that the best qualities of humanity are compassion, empathy, and kindness, not just being a member of the human species.
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What exactly is humanity? 好人 and 壞人 as being portrayed in fiction movies? Personally I don't think it's that black and white, but a full scale grey colour spectrum between black and white.
I have written a post about humanity here back in July: •What is humanity? [美語世界] - 最西邊的島上
And I was touched and moved by what I saw in CNN news this morning:
A Lyft driver in LA area helped a passenger named Shaw, who spent 36 hours looking for his father who died in the wildfires.
The Lyft driver Gilian Villatoro told CNN:
“I could only imagine what it would feel like to have my father unaccounted for in the middle of all of that. I felt like he needed help and I just needed to help him. There was no way that I could just meet somebody in that situation and not offer help.”
At the end of the story, it said:
“I cried very dry and my friends (Gilian and his wife) tried to hold me,” cried Shaw. “I feel so grateful for Gilian and his wife, they spent a day and a half helping me … you can see the generosity of people.”
Shaw's father was born in China.
