Quotes about Empathy

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.

You will never know God unless you love your fellow man, beginning with your father.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.