Justice is nothing but love with legs. Justice is what love looks like when it takes social form.
Dr Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary, New York, on Bill Moyers Journal (PBS), July 3, 2009
My son, always respect and honor the other fellow’s point of view. Unless it’s different from yours, of course.
Hagar the Horrible, Dik Browne, March 3, 1999
The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.
Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement
The commitment I seek is not to outworn views but to old values that will never wear out. Programs may sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue.
Ted Kennedy to the Democratic National Convention, 1980
They say it is better to be poor and happy than to be rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton, Abbey of Gethsemani (Trappist)
To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of the world. There will be music despite everything.
Jack Gilbert, poet
Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies.
Matthew Fox, Episcopal priest and theologian
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