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Quotes About Empathy

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
~ Ben Horowitz
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
~ Cass McCombs
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
~ William Hazlitt
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].
~ Dalai Lama
The best change that comes to the world is when all parties are seeing each other as equal, and all parties have the opportunity to be transformed. That really goes back to the idea of dignity.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
~ DaShanne Stokes
Dignity is a bridge.It needs two sides that, being different, distinct and distant become one in the bridgewithout ceasing to be different and distinct, but ceasing already to be distant.
~ Unknown
…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity." - Dami K.
~ Unknown
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
~ Stella Young
It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
~ Melinda Gates
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
~ Max Ehrmann
You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.
~ Hermann Hesse
Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
~ Michelle Tea
Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Odd that I couldn't catch any of your dream," Bones went on. "Normally your dreams are like background music to me.
~ Jeaniene Frost
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
~ Unknown
You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?
~ Sasha Lane
Do what others do not do, Believe in what others do not believe, Feel what others cant feel, Become what others cannot be
~ Unknown
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
~ Aristotle
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
~ Robert Frost
That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.
~ Pedro Noguera
What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.
~ Robert Fulghum