Quotes
Thinking deeply, and pitying deep in his soul the injustice they suffer.
To these tears we grant life and pity him besides.
No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
p. 793
Even here, merit will have its true reward...
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.
When the rabbit dies, the fox mourns. All are of the same animal kingdom.
It is human to lament, human to weep with them that weep, but it is greater to believe, more blessed to contemplate the believer.
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...
Pity and love know little severance. One attends the other. (Chapter I)
It was the face of a woman who had grown old but was still beautiful. Indeed, the nurse’s coif rejuvenated her, as it does all women, because it is in their nature to be rejuvenated by kindness and compassion and also by the external insignia of compassion.
p. 326
He could remember this compassion but he no longer felt it.
p. 440
It is only through solidarity, compassion and radical reimagining that we can build a more just and joyful world for all of us.
The movement's other great achievement is this. Among its supporters, it kept alive a tradition, a way of seeing the world, a human capacity for outrage at pain inflicted on another human being, no matter whether that pain is inflicted on someone of another color, in another country, at another end of the earth.
