Quotes About Compassion

Because a woman goes to prison doesn't mean she's a bad mom - doesn't mean that she shouldn't have her children.

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.

I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

Just because I am private person doesn't mean I am not a good person.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

I believe healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and no one should go bankrupt trying to afford coverage.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people.

My personal feeling, if I can interject a political note, is that I don't think it is right that basic health care is a privilege. It shouldn't be. It should be a right of all human beings. And certainly in the richest country in the world.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

My privilege as a celebrity doesn't disallow me pain.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It's a privilege to be in a position to give back, and one that I take pretty seriously because I know what it's like... to be less fortunate, to be less privileged.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.