Quotes About Compassion

Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good journalists always take a stand with those who have no power, with those who have no rights, and with those who have no voice.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.

I definitely relate to any kid who has lived without running water or electricity or having to be the smelly kid going to school because you don't have the resources. It's hard. I really relate to them and I want to help them as much as possible. It's a unique situation that you'll never forget where you came from.

Never give up on anybody.

I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for their families.

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.

I just believe in giving people their roses while they're living. That's my new thing - period.

I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way.

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

As soon as I got out of law school, I went to inner city Newark, New Jersey, to become a housing rights lawyer, because people fought for my housing rights, I was going to pay it forward by fighting for others.

First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

I just wanted to say that there is so much goodness in the world. We keep looking at the terrible and diabolical things when we open newspapers.

First of all, I'm no better than the next person.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.