Quotes About Compassion

We want to build a flagship refugee home. And I'm going to establish a charity for traumatized children.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

Refugees don't make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.

I've identified all my life with refugees.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.

In countless communities across America today, refugees are giving back to the country that has given them a new start.

Israel is duty-bound to take in refugees.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

When refugees are at a distance it's easy to be compassionate.

We need to protect immigrants who come here seeking a better life, rather than turning our backs on refugees and closing our borders and our hearts to others.

Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

It never gets old watching someone receive their first pair of glasses and regain their vision and their life.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.