Quotes About Empathy

The ones you help you get up are the ones who know how it feels to fall down.

Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.

Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

I'm not sure why there's this anger in the youth, but we need to talk about it. Kids need to get help if they need help, and bullies need to be helped as well.

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

There is room in history for all of us.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.