Quotes About Compassion

You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes.

You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchedness.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

Vous ne me laisserez pas plaider ma cause. Je connais votre cause. Votre cause c'est qu'il s'est passé certaines choses sur lesquelles vous n'avez aucun pouvoir. C'est vrai. Je suis certaine que c'est vrai. Mais ça ne fait pas une cause. Je n'ai pas de sympathie pour les gens auxquels des choses arrivent. C'est peut-être la malchance, mais est-ce que cela doit compter en leur faveur ?

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.

When you hear a sobbing child say it's not fair you are always hearing the truth.

Black: I see a different truth. Settin right across the table from me. White: Which is? Black: That you must love your brother or die.

They was some of em wound up just livin in the woods like animals. And that was a cold winter, too. People would see em crossin the road at night in the carlights. Whole families. Carryin blankets. Pots and pans. People tried to find em. Take em some flour and meal. Coffee. Maybe a little sidemeat. I think about those children. I do yet.

Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.

You have to right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchedness.

See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed & the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history & will have it.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

De todos modos el compartir es la ley del camino, verdad?

The world is full of people who should have been more willing to weep.

Justice is what Love looks like in public.

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

You work through race, you don't deny race. It's the difference between being color-blind and love-struck. You see, if I love you, I don't need to eliminate your whiteness. If you love me, you don't need to eliminate my blackness. You embrace humanity.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and the condition of being the truth is to transform your suffering with great creativity and compassion into forms and deeds that empower others to do likewise in their own ways.

Life without meaning, hope, and love breeds a coldhearted, mean-spirited outlook that destroys the individual and others.

Nothing was more cruel than a heart made of flesh and blood, because it knew what gives pain.

Truth or lie... he had always chosen the lie, to spare his little brother any unpleasant truth.

To never let the other forget who they are—love is also about that.

After all," she said, "many people here have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different than them—so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?