Quotes about Empathy

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

News flash to black Americans: Barack Obama has never loved you, and by now, it should be clear to you!

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

I have forgiven those who were persecuting me.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

When there are legitimate concerns and frustrations it is never cool to marginalise and ridicule the people who have those concerns.

If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn't.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Sooner or later you'll learn there are people in the world who don't want to use you, Now, buck up your courage and go back in there and get to know a few.

Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.