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60 Amazing Pictures Of People Capture What It Is To Be Human

These 60 amazing pictures of people from through the years perfectly capture the full range of emotions that make us human. From joy and innocence, to despair, curiosity and perseverance, these beautiful images tell the amazing story of the human spirit.

This photo, taken during the Pentagon anti-war protest in 1967 captures the moment 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir offers a flower to soldiers.

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source: Mark Riboud

A young protester stands before gunfire during protests in Brazil against corruption and police brutality.

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Source: Huffington Post

At the height of the Korean War, Sergeant Frank Praytor cares for a two week old kitten.

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A young Afghan girl holds the hand of a US soldier.

Source: Soldier_Scott68 on Reddit
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Source: Sally Mann

A young boy carries his dog through floods.

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Source: theatlantic.com

A North Korean waves goodbye to his South Korean brother after inter-korean temporary family reunions.

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Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband. The image was captured on the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.

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Source: Manuel Balce Ceneta

The first mother in space, Anna Fisher on the cover of Life magazine in 1985.

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Source: Life Magazine

A monk shares his meal with a tiger.

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Source: Wojtek Kalka

A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War. [1936]

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Source: Horace Abrahams
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A boy left horribly scarred after liberation from a death camp in Rwanda.

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Source: James Nachtwey

A mother and her child.

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Source: Alex Elle

A tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal captured by Bruno Morandi in 2009.

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Source: Bruno Morandi

Dance.

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A policeman in the 1960s directs a young boy across the street, pulling his double decker in front of a real one.

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Source: Notman Photographics Archives

A cat listens to a young boy playing a whistle.

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Source: Vladimir Zotov
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Central Kiev Square, Ukraine.

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Source: BBC

Love never gets old.

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Captain Donald Spindler rescues 4 year-old Aaliyah Frazier from a fire in Indiana

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Source: Courier & Press

A mother and her newborn baby.

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A Coal Miner.

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Source: Daniel Becerril

A protestor in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989.

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Source: Stuart Franklin
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Source: Itsuo Inouye

A groom can’t control his emotions.

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Source: Jeff Bailey

Violinist, Nancy Dinovo sheds tears for the victims of 9/11 as she plays at this memorial service in downtown Vancouver.

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Source: Christopher J. Morris

A child of the Erbore tribe, Ethiopia

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Source: Copyright: Eric Lafforgue | www.ericlafforgue.com

An African American police officer looks down as the child of a Klu Klux Klan member touches his reflection in his riot shield. Taken during a demonstration in 1992.

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Source: Todd Robertson

After more than 60 years, Clara Grantt is reunited with the body of her husband Sergeant Joseph Grant, who went missing in the Korean War.

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Source: Andrew Renneisen

A boy runs home with a stick of bread.

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Source: Willy Ronis

Students at Rwanda’s only classical ballet school, a source of tremendous hope for the post-genocide Kigali community.

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Source: Caroline Joan Peixoto, City Arts
A young girl holds her cat in a blanket.
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100,000 monks prey for a better world.

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Source: Luke Duggleby

An old man strums his guitar by the sea.

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Skater girls in Tehran.

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Source: Humans Of Tehran
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Source: Julia Noni

A 3 weeks old infant with albinism cuddles up to his cousin.

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Source: Patricia Willocq

After being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war, Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is finally reunited with his family.

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An old man brightens up a young boy’s day.

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Source: National Geographic

A local teenager confronts British soldiers during ‘the troubles’ in Northern Ireland

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A Mursi tribe woman in Ethiopia reading Vogue magazine for the first time.

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Source: Copyright: Eric Lafforgue | www.ericlafforgue.com
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Source: Steve McCurry

A young boy feels the spikes on a punk’s leather jacket.

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After a 23 hour heart transplant operation, Dr. Religa monitors his patient’s vitals.

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Source: J. Steinfeld, National Geographic 1987.

Not only did the patient survive the surgery, he went on to outlive his Doctor.

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A green eyed girl from Nepal.

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Source: mellowmonk on Reddit

A protester plays piano over the sounds of chaos, while riot police look on in the background.

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Source: The DO Art Foundation

Supporters cheer the legalising of gay marriage in Minnesota.

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Source: Denver Post

A woman from Papua New Guinea celebrating Singsing in Mount Hagen.

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Source: Copyright: Eric Lafforgue | www.ericlafforgue.com

A baby joins in.

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Source: Vincent Kessler
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The tattoo of wounded soldier Kyle Hockenberry becomes truth.

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Source: Laura Rauch

A soldier holds a butterfly.

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A bus of caring people save a woman who tried to commit suicide in China.

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Source: scnews.com

Agim Shala is passed through a barbed wire fence to his grandparents at a camp for refugees of the Kosovo War.

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Source: Carol Guzy

A mother wraps up her child.

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Source: Wakil Kohsar

A man proudly holds his AA chip.

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