Quotes About Compassion

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.

In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'