Whether atheists or religious, humanists do not start with their atheism or their faith as the basis for their view of the world and their actions. They start with the human being and the immediate needs of human beings. And if, in their struggle for a better world, they believe they discover an intention that moves history in a progressive direction, they place this faith or this discovery at the service of the human being. For humanists, every form of discrimination, whether subtle or overt, is something to be denounced. Humanists are not violent, but above all they are not cowards, and because their actions have meaning they are unafraid of facing violence.
Humanists connect their personal lives with the life of society.
They do not pose such false dichotomies as viewing their own lives as separate from the lives of those around them, and in this lies their coherence. Because humanism is based on freedom of choice, it offers the only valid ethic of the present time. And because humanism believes in intention and freedom, it distinguishes between error and bad faith, between one who is mistaken and one who is a traitor.