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But, if we have any hope in combating extremism, to combat the mentality that what I believe is truer than what others believe, that what I believe trumps everything, even the basic humanity of another human being, then we must continue supporting literacy and promoting the highest education possible for our young people, not just here in the United States, but globally as well.
President Obama yesterday lent his voice to affirming the basic humanity of gay and lesbian communities.
"By homing in on the basic humanity of the twins' story," Strauss creates "a story of heroic longing," Andrew Santella wrote here in 2000.
She writes on Guardian Professional that the Francis report shows the NHS "is not the glittering national treasure we would have it be, lacking in some places the basic humanity of care that we all expect".
By homing in on the basic humanity of the twins' story and working it with such sympathy, Strauss manages to move Chang and Eng from the sideshow stage, placing them at the center of a story of heroic longing.
There is a strong sense in these stories that difference is seen not as positive diversity, but as negatively alien: so alien that the basic humanity of others is not even acknowledged.
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Division along cultural and political lines has sharpened, to the point at which many actually doubt the sincerity and basic humanity of their political opponents.
It seems appropriate that that quote from Ellen Willis is from the essay "Abortion: Is a Woman a Person?" Because what's at stake in a decision like this – and in a debate like this – is women's basic humanity, of which sexuality is an integral part.
With rare exceptions, the documents paint a searing picture of the collapse of basic humanity, a Lord of the Flies scenario of which any liberal democracy should be utterly ashamed.
As long as the question of our basic humanity remains the focus of this "debate," we're trapped in a post-truth loop of they say/we say, and our civil liberties will remain under assault.
They also use the phrase because it taps a part of basic humanity, our fear of new concepts.
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