Quotes About Compassion

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

Women should take care of each other, not tear each other down.

Men want to make women happy.

If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

The woman hanging from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago is not alone...She is all the women of the apartment building who stand watching her, watching themselves.

Women just get really hard on each other.

We need to support these women who are in crisis pregnancy situations.

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.

It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.

Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.