{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-a-humanist",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-a-humanist.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-a-humanist.md",
  "id": "75850419-cce3-44cb-82c5-a5d1cfe20545",
  "slug": "i-am-a-humanist",
  "text": "I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson — the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "James A. Michener",
    "slug": "james-a-michener",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "The World Is My Home",
    "slug": "the-world-is-my-home",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": null,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "morality",
      "slug": "morality",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality"
    },
    {
      "name": "society",
      "slug": "society",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#The_World_Is_My_Home_(1991)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:54",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "acb82a52-3c9a-4c05-9c1b-d74a443b23fd",
      "slug": "i-am-terrified",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-a-michener/the-world-is-my-home/i-am-terrified",
      "text": "I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "power",
          "slug": "power",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power"
        },
        {
          "name": "religion",
          "slug": "religion",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_A._Michener#The_World_Is_My_Home_(1991)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:37:54"
    }
  ]
}