Quotes About Compassion

Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

We don't have to live in a world where everyone reacts perfectly the first time around, and if you don't, everything falls apart, and no one speaks to you ever again.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Everybody loves animals, but there is this special bond that few people have with animals and with nature.

Working with special needs children is hard.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

Once I got to the NBA I wanted to continue to work with the Special Olympics and those with special needs.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Other species help children develop empathy.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

No species is more important than others.

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.

We need to emphasize the more positive aspects of our species.