• Native American Spirituality:
  • "Respect for all life is the foundation." The Great Law of Peace.
    
    
  • "All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One." Black Elk
    
    
  • "Do not wrong or hate your neighbor. For it is not he who you wrong, but yourself." Pima proverb.
    
    
• Roman Pagan Religion:
  
  
  • "The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love the members of society as themselves."
    
    
• Shinto:
  • "The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form" Munetada Kurozumi
    
    
  • "Be charitable to all beings, love is the representative of God." Ko-ji-ki Hachiman Kasuga
    
    
• Sikhism:
  • Compassion-mercy and religion are the support of the entire world". Japji Sahib
    
    
  • "Don't create enmity with anyone as God is within everyone." Guru Arjan Devji 259
    
    
  • "No one is my enemy, none a stranger and everyone is my friend." Guru Arjan Dev : AG 1299
    
    
• Sufism:
  • "The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this." Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order.
    
    
• Taoism:
  • "Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien.
    
    
  • "The sage has no interest of his own, but takes the interests of the people as his own. He is kind to the kind; he is also kind to the unkind: for Virtue is kind. He is faithful to the faithful; he is also faithful to the unfaithful: for Virtue is faithful." Tao Teh Ching, Chapter 49.
    
    
• Unitarian Universalism:
  • "The inherent worth and dignity of every person;"
    "Justice, equity and compassion in human relations.... "
    "The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;"
    "We affirm and promote respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." Unitarian principles. _1,2
    
• Wicca:
  • "An it harm no one, do what thou wilt" (i.e. do what ever you will, as long as it harms nobody, including yourself). This is called the Wiccan Rede
    
    
• Yoruba: (Nigeria):
  • "One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts."
    
    
• Zoroastrianism:
  • "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself". Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
    
    
  • "Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others."  Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29
    

• Humanism:
  • "...critical intelligence, infused by a sense of human caring, is the best method that humanity has for resolving problems. Reason should be balanced with compassion and empathy and the whole person fulfilled." Humanist Manifesto II; Ethics section.
    
    
  • "(5) Humanists acknowledge human interdependence, the need for mutual respect and the kinship of all humanity."
  • "(11) Humanists affirm that individual and social problems can only be resolved by means of human reason, intelligent effort, critical thinking joined with compassion and a spirit of empathy for all living beings." ₃
    
    
  • "Don't do things you wouldn't want to have done to you, British Humanist Society.
    
    
• Scientology:
  • "20: Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you." This is one of the 21 moral precepts that form the moral code explained in L. Ron Hubbard's booklet "The Way to Happiness."

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References used:

The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.

1. "Our Principles," Unitarian Universalist Association, at: http://www.uua.org/

2. "My Seven Principles: A child's booklet," (The seven principles in a form easily understood by children), Unitarian Universalist Association, at: https://secure.uua.org/

3. "Principles of Humanism," Humanist Association of Canada, at: http://canada.humanists.net/

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