Quotes About Compassion

Jews cannot be apathetic when hundreds of thousands of refugees are searching for safe haven.

Christian abolitionists gave their lives by the hundreds of thousands to end slavery.

Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I think the thread running through most midwives is the passion.

The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Not everybody is exactly the same, and superficially, we are all different in different ways. The common thread is the humanity that binds us.

This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.

We have to get away from thinking that everyone coming to the United States is a threat.

I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.

People are more than their first impressions. And even if someone seems like a lot, or seems this way or that way, it doesn't mean they're not a three-dimensional person, with a real life.