Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
Quoted in: Dream It. List It. Do It!: How to Live a Bigger & Bolder Life, from the Life List Experts at 43Things.com http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_PBV0WJr9vsC&pg=PA98, Workman Publishing, 25 December 2008, p. 98
“All soil is human birthright.”
Omne homini natale solum.
Variant translation: The whole world is a man's birthplace.
Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 320 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
Andrew Fraknoi (1948) astronomer
[Former ASP Executive Director Andrew Fraknoi Named 2007 California Professor of the Year, https://www.astrosociety.org/news/fraknoi.html, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 18 January 2018]
John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer
Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
Message to Garrett Fort (1936) <!-- Tr p194, also A p26 -->
General sources
Context: It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1443&chapter=56215&layout=html&Itemid=27 <br class="br">Context: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”
Gary Shteyngart (1972) american journalist and writer
“Neither. I think of myself as a human being.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 87, when asked if he thought of himself as Chinese or American
