Quotes about Compassion

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

No human being is illegal.

But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?