Quotes About Compassion

I'm not an 'opponent.' I don't believe I should be treated as an opponent.

Reveling in our opponents' missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

It's a challenge, but every single German or Canadian I want to beat, I still have to love them. That means competing the way God wants me to compete and helping my opponents if they have a need.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

If you're on the side of the oppressor, or you're defending the oppressor, or you're actually trying to humanize the oppressor, then that's a problem.

You could be a woman in Alabama who's a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah.