Quotes About Compassion

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

All go free when multitudes offend.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.