The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.Audrey Hepburn
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.Niccolo Machiavelli
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.Oprah Winfrey
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.Chuck Palahniuk
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.Charlie Chaplin
Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.Simone Weil
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.Simone Weil
