Birders, alarmed at the loss of once-common understory species like Red-eyed vireo and American woodcock, are calling for the management of the white deer population before more birds are lost -- "management," in this case, being humane-speak code for "hunting".
More important, the collection is united by a humane intelligence that speaks very directly to the reader, and makes us experience each story with immediacy and Chiang's calm passion.
The film may speak up for humane treatment; DiCaprio is wonderfully appealing and empathetic.
To be sure that anybody who is willing to speak up, artists, musicians, activists, humane rights defenders.
Only a society with a humane face and laws has the moral right to speak about peace for mankind.
Under such conditions, Mencius' preachments to the princes on virtuous personal conduct and humane government fell on deaf ears; yet he continued to speak his mind, even though he knew that he was championing an unpopular cause.
Melville's skew of things doesn't look like an accident: in the early sixties, the president of France, Charles de Gaulle, was actively working on achieving reconciliation with (West) Germany; by suppressing the faces of German soldiers arresting Jews and instead showing only the most humane of German soldiers speaking and acting in close-up, Melville was contributing to that cause.
Chris Morris, the BBC's Europe correspondent, says the Commission's draft proposals speak of a determination to implement "a more swift return system" and to "ensure a humane and dignified treatment of returnees, and a proportionate use of coercive measures".
Pavan Dhaliwal, head of public affairs at the British Humanist Association, said Davies' "immensely brave decision" to speak out before her death was an attempt to advance justice and bring about a more humane society.
Most are now struggling to create environments in which the humane treatment of others is encouraged, inappropriate behavior is dealt with quickly and assertively, and young people feel free to speak up when they feel threatened.
Where once the likes of Yehoshua could claim to speak for at least half of Israeli society, these days he seems to speak for an Israel – secular, enlightened, humane – that is shrinking, banished ever further to the margins.
