Source: “Evolutionary Theory and Theological Ethics” (2012), p. 251
“Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.”
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“We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.”
Cornell Chronicle interview (1999)
Context: We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
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“In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the USA.”
Fred Phelps, writing to the Ambassador to the United States from the People's Republic of China, February 26, 1997.
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1990s
Context: In our experience, no modern country is more repressive of human rights than the USA. The vaunted First Amendment is nothing but empty words on paper…we will journey to China at our expense, and tell our story of modern American repression of human rights, upon invitation.