I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert SchweitzerThere really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady GagaIt’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The WeekndMy mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya AngelouCulture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo CoelhoI 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 WalkerWe pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson MandelaOur human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson MandelaNever deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard ShawThe poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul SartreSadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
Angelina JolieLet us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Thich Nhat HanhThere are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad AliA man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert SchweitzerI 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 AlbrightInvesting for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
Bill GatesEvery time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
Noam ChomskyIf we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
Alice WalkerOccasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
Billy GrahamWe do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
EpicurusA little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope FrancisLife becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert SchweitzerDon’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.
Paul AusterWhen I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
Mr. TYou know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
Mr. TThe surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon BonaparteDo not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard ShawIt’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
Joyce MeyerYou must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.
Abby Lee MillerWhen I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Jackie ChanI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaAnybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader GinsburgTechnology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Bill GatesIf you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.
Noam ChomskyPeople have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.
Kanye WestOur veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.
Michelle ObamaIt is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen KellerI want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother TeresaA true man hates no one.
Napoleon BonaparteInformation helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
Maya AngelouIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
James BaldwinWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack LondonI’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.
Barack ObamaCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry FordWhether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai LamaIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Hermann HesseUse power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. BushWhen you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
Brian EnoThink occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert SchweitzerWhen you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.
BonoTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy GrahamWe need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack ObamaI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch SpinozaAnger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis BaconWhether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
Joel OsteenIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusAs a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
Mr. T