Quotes About Empathy

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

In true love, you attain freedom.

If we reach common ground, and can understand what everybody's going through, we can really affect change. And make sure that everyone is trated equally and has the same freedom.

The right to be respected is won by respecting others.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.