Quotes About Compassion

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Nau­czy­liÅ›my siÄ™ fru­wa? niczym pta­ki na niebie, pÅ'ywa? jak ry­by w morzach, ale nie nau­czy­liÅ›my siÄ™ tej pros­tej sztu­ki, by ?y? ze sobÄ… jak bra­cia

Ä°nsanlar pek çok ÅŸeyi öÄŸrenmiÅŸler; kuÅŸlar gibi uçmay?, bal?klar gibi yüzmeyi. Fakat çok basit bir ÅŸeyi öÄŸrenememiÅŸler: kardeÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamay?.

La injusticia en cualquier lugar es una amenaza para la justicia en todas partes

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.