The Evolving Humanist Manifesto

1933 Humanist Manifesto > Time Sequence > 1973 Humanist Manifesto II - Introduction
In light of historical events between 1933 and 1973, the American Humanist Association had to revise their manifesto to make it more hopeful and realistic about humanity: It is forty years since Humanist Manifesto I (1933) appeared. Events since then make that earlier statement seem far too optimistic. Nazism has shown the depths of brutality of which humanity is capable. Other totalitarian regimes have suppressed human rights without ending poverty. Science has sometimes brought evil as we...