Quotes About Compassion

Nadie es una persona si no es la humanidad entera. REFRÁN DE NKOKOLANI

E pergunto: por que nos ensinaram essa merda de sermos humanos? Seria melhor sermos bichos, tudo instinto. Podemos violar, morder, matar. Sem culpa, sem juízo, sem perdão. A desgraça é esta: só uns poucos aprenderam a lição da humanidade.

No meu tempo de menino tínhamos pena dos pobres. Eles cabiam naquele lugarzinho menor, carentes de tudo, mas sem perder humanidade. Os meus filhos, hoje, têm medo dos pobres. A pobreza converteu-se num lugar monstruoso.

He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and also he wanted to give them his pain to keep for their own.

You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her

In discussing the slave trade, it is essential to view those trafficked first and foremost as human beings, with families, cultures, and sensibilities – no different from anyone else.

Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God.

Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

We treat others badly not because we don't understand how people should be treated but because we don't really consider them people.

When I peeked out the window into the yard, there was Kurt with some kind of contraption on his head that resembled a tin-foil hat, sneaking around the yard followed by a half a dozen laughing toddlers. Kurt had that million-dollar grin on his face and I could tell he was definitely in nirvana. I guess you could say he was the Pied Piper of compassion.

We assume that people want to do a good job. When they don't, we assume that something happened to them to make them do otherwise.

When we ascend we have to give people what they deserve: dignity. What I understand by dignity is that man is an instrument for love

Let's start this feeling, this mental posture, fraternity, to see in each human being a brother.

God is not one Fire, but every single flame of hope, of forgiveness, of effort to do good, anywhere, eternally.

Don't feel guilty. Do something to make it better. Help us heal by standing—or sitting—alongside us.

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.

That's what is happening every time we kill an Iraqi, every time we kill anyone, we are creating a large number of people who are going to want vengeance. And, you know, when are we ever going to learn that that doesn't work?

My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

On September 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked "What God do you pray to?" "What beliefs do you hold?"

Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part.

Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake

Welcome to the party," I say to them as more and more people gather to watch. "I'm telling my friends here that we have to fight together. We have to look after one another. This is about the end of the world, and we have to put aside our hate and fear of one another. If we can't learn to stand together by tomorrow, we'll all be lying together dead." — Lyric

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.