Quotes About Compassion

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.

Paulo represented for those of us who are committed to imagine a world, in his own words, that is less ugly, more beautiful, less discriminatory, more democratic, less dehumanizing, and more humane.

The brutality of racism is something beyond what a minimum of human sensitivity can encounter without trembling, and saying, "Horrible!

Actually, what the rejected ones need—those forbidden to be, prevented from being—is not our tepidity but our warmth, our solidarity—yes, and our love, but an unfeigned love, not a mistrustful one, not a soppy love, but an 'armed' love.

Aos esfarrapados do mundo e aos que neles se descobrem e, assim descobrindo-se, com eles sofrem, mas, sobretudo, com eles lutam.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work

If you hate something, don't you do it too?

I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Help her, since she is unhappy, And a woman; two good motives