Quotes About Empathy

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.

People are fools, not monsters

Even when a white person is closely tied to African Americans, that white person is often living in an entirely different world from that of their friends, though we rarely realize it.

That we not become prejudiced against those are prejudiced, or whose prejudices. May no be our own.

The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them to feel their full effects in the deepest layers of my consciousness.

After all, how do you give a crash course in hatred to a boy who has only known love?

only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains—claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom they stand, we might have a chance of surviving one another. As it is...

Cruelty was fear in disguise and nothing more. And hadn't one of Japeth's holy strangers said that fear itself was nothing more than a failure of the imagination?

The dead by the road, or on it, testify to the presence of man. Their little gestures of pain—paws, wings and tails—are the saddest, the loneliest, most forlorn postures of the dead I can imagine. When we have stopped killing animals as though they were so much refuse, we will stop killing one another. But the highways show our indifference to death, so long as it is someone else's. It is an attitude of the human mind I do not grasp. ? Timothy Findley

Ha nem tudjuk kifejezni gondolatainkat és érzéseinket, akkor emberi mivoltunkat sem tudjuk egészében megélni. Ha nem hallhatjuk és láthatjuk embertársaink érzéseit és gondolatait, akkor soha nem fogjuk megérteni, mit jelent másvalakinek lenni.

Perhaps indifference itself is pointing to a way to care for humans and nonhumans in a less violent way- simply allowing them to exist, like pieces of paper in your hand, like a story you might appreciate- or not- for no reason.

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (only what is helpful for building others up) 2) Consider the problem (according to their needs) 3) Consider the process (that it may benefit those who listen)

My cause, first, midst, last, and always," he wrote, "was and is that of the black man; not because he is black, but because he is a man.

Confession, apology, and forgiveness, Aunt Beru had been fond of reminding him, were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges.

You're my brother, and my friend. Thrass countered. If it's important to you, it's important to me.

He cares about non-Chiss lives. Yes, he does, Samakro agreed. You threaten his people, and see how fast that changes.

each other for a whole month; and we

But he told me hatred was wrong, that it was one of those things that hurt the hater more than the people he hated. He told me there can be justice without hatred, and punishment without revenge. He said we were all responsible for what we do and what we don't do, and no one should have to pay for someone else's crimes.

Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie.

How could he not see what he was doing to her until now?

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty. -Kuchiki Rukia

You will always be my best friend.

If I ask, will you answer? It's your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I'll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it's okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I'll wait." - Rukia Kuchiki

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.