Quotes About Empathy

Trayvon Martin did not need to die.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

Martin Luther King Jr. would say love not hate would make America great.

The coming out video was not just for the masses, but also for many people in my family.

I'm never massively concerned about what somebody is wearing, as long as it makes them feel really good about themselves.

I've become a master of the apology.

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems - especially as we've got older. But I don't think a lot of people have that.

I'm not good at math.

What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.

My job as a pollster is to understand what really matters.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

Ninety-five percent of my work is being mayor. But that 5% that nags at all of us - of what's going wrong in this country - I think is best thought out not in your own head but by getting out there, being out there, and listening to Americans.

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

Being a mom, I am even more inspired to really help make a difference. I can't imagine what it would be like if my child didn't have a meal to eat.

I used to dream about being able to sit at a table with another human being, have a normal conversation, and have a meal with normal cutlery, and have normal moments.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

I hope that there will be more and more games that will have something to say and become a little bit more meaningful.