Words matter. These are the best Personhood Quotes from famous people such as Coretta Scott King, Stephanie Coontz, Matthew Desmond, Charles Krauthammer, Michael J. Knowles, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood.
Home is the center of life. It’s the wellspring of personhood. It’s where we say we’re ourselves.
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.
We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.
I have said that I am in favor of personhood as a concept. I am not taking a position on any of the state amendments, and I have said over and over again – and it has been reported over and over again – that I am not in favor of banning any common forms of birth control in Colorado or in the United States.
I oppose the personhood amendment. Years ago I’d said that I’d supported it – it was the wrong idea. Looking at it, talking to people of Colorado, I don’t support it.
There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.
There is no such thing as a federal personhood bill.
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
