Almost everybody in our land, except humanitarians and a few persons whose youth has been depressed by exceptionally aesthetic surroundings, can understand and sympathise with an Admiral or a prize-fighter.
The movement for shorter hours by law for women, which first attained importance in the nineties, was not the work of organized labor but of humanitarians and social workers.
At present after many years of agitation by humanitarians and trade unionists, the cause of legislative protection of child and woman laborers seems to be won in principle.
It would obviously be much wiser for the humanitarians to recognise that incorrect statements, or sweeping generalisations which are incapable of proof, do their cause more harm than good.
In The Universal Kinship, Howard Moore left to humanitarians a treasure which it will be their own fault if they do not value as it deserves.
One advantage, at least, can be drawn by humanitarians from the present state of affairs--a more accurate apprehension of the obstacles by which their hopes are beset.
It is not at all what thehumanitarians hoped and expected.
The humanitarians of the nineteenth century did not settle anything.
It was for families like these that Albert Duerer painted his best pictures; to them the travelling Humanitarians resorted; every elegant verse, every manly sentiment or word of genius, were there first heartily appreciated.
In the beginning of the century, however, the Humanitarians carried on almost alone the struggle against the oppression under which the nation groaned.
The Nationals are in the right; one cannot deny his nationality: and the humanitarians are in the right; one must not remain in the narrowness of the national.
Almost everybody in our land, except humanitarians and a few persons whose youth has been depressed by exceptionally æsthetic surroundings, can understand and sympathise with an admiral or a prize-fighter.
Humanitarians now began to demand legislation to restrict the evils that had arisen.
With the rise of organized labor, and the extension of the suffrage to the laboring man, he has joined the humanitarians in opposition to his children being permitted to labor.
That did not occur to the humanitarians at the moment: people do not reflect deeply when they are in the first happiness of escape from an intolerably oppressive situation.
The influence of the humanitariansdominated the report of the Commissioners, which was signed in January, 1868.
But it is probable the humanitarians have reckoned without their host.
The humanitarians will fail for the want of a good social grievance against which they can declaim.
Negro enfranchisement is a question of which the humanitarians can make something and they will make the most of it; but as it is a question that each State will soon settle for itself, it will not serve their purpose of prolonged agitation.
For the humanitarians certainly asked of humanity what can be asked of no other creature; no man ever required a dog to understand a cat or expected the cow to cry for the sorrows of the nightingale.
We can best see how the play symbolises and summarises Bernard Shaw if we compare it with some other attack by modern humanitarians upon war.
Meacham wanted the place, and backed by the churches and humanitarians of New England, thought he could accomplish his purpose by means of a compromise with Jack and his band.
Mock sentimentalists and fake humanitarianshave walled their eyes to heaven in holy horror at the "barbarities" practiced by white men upon the "poor persecuted red man.
Thus ended the farce-tragedy of the Modoc war, a farce so far as misguided enthusiasts and mock humanitarians could make it in extending the olive branch of peace to redhanded murderers.
Denjiro Kotoku, the Japanese essayist who founded the radical Heiminshimbun, considers him one of the greatest humanitarians of the nineteenth century.
You once told me that you found humanitarians difficult to live with: I wonder what Jack thinks of mystical philosophers in the domestic relation.
I have heard one of these humanitarians avow that he and practically all his friends were materialists, and such they are even when they will not admit it.
But as a final climax of your argument, you declare that in your "own experience" you have found these humanitarians "impossible to live with.
What made them something more than graceful acts of materialism was that each and all ended not in themselves or in worldly accommodation, but in some purpose outside of human nature as our humanitarians comprehend that nature.
You are angry with the humanitarians for their materialism.
It is because I find in all so-called humanitarians this tendency to place humanity before God, material needs before ideals, that I call them, when all is said, the most insidious foes of true religion.
What seriously concerns our humanitarians is the service of mankind.
The humanitarians cry out against the materialism and the commercial spirit of the age.
It is a striking and significant fact that these humanitarians are continually breaking the simplest rules of honesty and decent living.
The humanitarians would have realised the cruelty of their proposal had they seen, as I did, the pitiful sights in Northern Albania thirty years ago.
Place but a score of them on the middle course of the Congo, and they will rule unless exterminated; and all the armies and all the humanitarianscan not change this, until the appointed time arrives for Ham to dominate Japhet.
Humanitarians shuddered with horror and wept with grief for the imaginary woes of Africans; but their hearts were as adamant to people of their own race and blood.
Humanitarians for murderers might call this insanity.
Thus some humanitariansonly care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.
So with the ideal of human morality and its relation to the humanitarians and the anti-humanitarians.
Humanitarians are not more humane than other people.
What Marat felt towards marquesses most humanitarians feel more or less towards sportsmen.
What humanitarians desire to see is the substitution everywhere of this kind of shooting for that of firing at pigeons and starlings and other living birds liberated from traps.
He was, in short, one of the old-fashioned humanitarians of the eighteenth century, a class which we may or may not have conquered in moral theory, but which we most certainly have not conquered in moral practice.
Humanitarians of a more vivid type, the Bohemian artists, go to look for humanity in thieves' kitchens and the studios of the Quartier Latin.
Humanitarians of a material and dogmatic type, the philanthropists and the professional reformers go to look for humanity in remote places and in huge statistics.
But humanitarians of the highest type, the great poets and philosophers, do not go to look for humanity at all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "humanitarians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
