Quotes About Compassion

I love good and caring lawyers who are advocates, who are defenders, who are problem-solvers, and who are peacemakers.

I believe that one bad decision should not define a person.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

I definitely don't see what people do for a living. I feel that doesn't define you as a human being; who you are defines you. I couldn't care less about what you do.

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based on race, religion, and ethnicity is like betraying that.

I'm definitely an animal lover.

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

I do have a delicate side.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

Not everyone is able to show courage, but human decency must be demanded of every person.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.

If someone were lying on the road dying would it matter to you who came to save you? If it was a Democrat or a Republican, would it matter?

I think that one of the things that Democrats, in particular, need to recognize is that the way we have sometimes thought about issues as just affecting a particular group of people is not necessarily right.

Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.

I'm starting to understand that no one should be denied the chance at happiness that marriage brings.

Living in this world, we all just want to be happy. And I don't think it is right to be denied that opportunity over a single mistake.

Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a 'common denominator with the characters that I play.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.