RON HENGGELER

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness.
It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost.
And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.
Jennifer Granholm

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
Anderson Cooper

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
Pras Michel

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs