Quotes About Compassion

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Maybe if she had known some other way to try, she might have made his face different. But what the other way could be, she had no idea.

Put me down easy, Janie, Ah'm a cracked plate.

Mouths don't empty themselves unless ears are sympathetic and knowing.

Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.

A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. People ought to have some regard for helpless things. She wanted to fight about it.

Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief. At the moment they show us our wound, they reveal they have the medicine. Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a perfect example of this.

Not every skunk in the world rates a first-class killing. Hanging is too good for some folks. They just need their behinds kicked.

Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.

Papa used to shake his head at this and say, "What's de use of me taking my fist to a poor weakly thing like a woman? Anyhow, you got to submit yourself to 'em, so there ain't no use in beating on 'em and then have to go back and beg 'em pardon.

For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skill. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of him mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth. She saw he was hurting inside so she let it pass without talking.

Anyhow he'll learn dat folks is human all ovah de world. Dats worth a lot to know, an' it's worth going a long way tuh fin out.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

Late-term abortions are unconscionable.

I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

Can you love people into truth? Absolutely.

I'm ready to do any kind of work, as long as it absorbs my passion for making a just world and equal world.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.