The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.
Bill GatesCapitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingThe funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
Paul AusterThere are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad AliOur prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai LamaWe ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus AureliusI used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.
Joyce MeyerEvery time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.
Kurt CobainNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.
Michelle ObamaI’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.
Joyce MeyerWho, being loved, is poor?
Oscar WildeBut what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
Barack ObamaThe poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul SartreThe civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles DickensI have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard ShawI think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Alice WalkerWhen I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
Wayne DyerIt is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMeditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Thich Nhat HanhGive to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus ChristEvery loss of life is terrible.
George H. W. BushWe hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George EliotReligion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteIf you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.
Maya AngelouIf someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
Pope FrancisI feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim CarreyCompassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert SchweitzerInstead of judging people, we need to pray.
Joyce MeyerI do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine AlbrightI don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
Noam ChomskySub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
BonoAs a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.
Russell M. NelsonYou stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Desmond TutuThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy GrahamEach one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother TeresaAnger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis BaconEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl JungI wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.
Michelle ObamaTo add value to others, one must first value others.
John C. MaxwellKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl JungThere really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady GagaSome folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David ByrneI’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.
BonoThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George EliotIn America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert HooverLove grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
Elbert HubbardBut Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander PopeBe nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Desmond TutuLife is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiLet us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother TeresaI feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.
Billie EilishHuman kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. RooseveltI just don’t like killing creatures.
Clint EastwoodThe correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis BaconWhoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Albert SchweitzerThere are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche