Quotes About Compassion

They give us this presentation every year about the NFL being a brotherhood. And if something is going on with one of your brothers, I feel like we should be there to have his back and speak up for him.

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum had four children plus all of the extended family and she not only had to feed us all but she bought presents for everyone, too.

My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and church groups with food and Christmas presents. It's a hard cycle to break, because when you don't have the resources, it's almost impossible.

While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

President Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children and the screams of this nation.

I have worked with President Trump for two years and he is not a racist. He is a compassionate man whose policies have focused on the minority community.

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

I just want to inspire people to love other people and be accepting because I feel like there's so much going on in the world, and there's so many pressures, and there's so much negativity.

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

If a really, really pretty girl needs a ride home, I'm your guy.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.