Quotes about Empathy

In all people I see myself, none more and not one barley-corn less, And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

In poems or in speeches I say the word or two that has got to be said, adhere to the body, step with the countless common footsteps, and remind every man and woman of something.

Amikor mellém érsz, idegen, és beszélni kÃ

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.

This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, Argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss what insults your very soul, And your flesh shall become a great poem.

God gave people tear ducts for a good reason, and folks shouldn't be too stubborn to use them.

If it is a choice to be right or kind, always choose kind.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed...

It is, then, not simply a question of black power or white power, but of how meaningfully to reenfranchise human power. This, as I think Martin Luther King understood, is the real point, the real gift to America, of the struggle of the black people. In accepting the humanity of the black race, the white people will not be giving accommodation to an alien people; it will be receiving into itself half of its own experience, vital and indispensable to it, which it has so far denied at great cost.