“Unless you truly feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger – you cannot grow spiritually, scientifically, politically, and socially.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Real education starts when you genuinely feel the pain and sufferings of the people and living beings in flood, famine, poverty, disease, exploitation, and hunger. Spirituality begins when you take positive actions to remove that pain and suffering.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“People of North America: may the example of all those nations that have preceded you, and especially that of your motherland, be your guide. Beware the abundance of gold that brings about the corruption of morals and the scorn of law; beware of an unbalanced distribution of wealth that will produce a small number of opulent citizens and a horde of citizens in poverty...”
“A bread that a poor gives to another poor is a thousand times more valuable than a thousand bread given by a rich to the same poor!”
“As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.”
Source: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
“When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.”
Source: ژان کریستف: دوره ۴ جلدی
“What they sang had occurred to him before, but this thought had somehow sat behind other thoughts in his head and flashed timidly, like a distant lantern in misty weather. And he felt that this suicide and the peasant’s grievances lay in his conscience too; to be reconciled with the fact that these people, submissive to their lot, heaped on themselves what was heaviest and darkest in life — how terrible it was! To be reconciled with that, and to wish for oneself a bright, boisterous life among happy, contented people, and to dream constantly of such a life, meant to dream of new suicides by overworked, careworn people, or by weak neglected people, whom one sometimes talked about with vexation or mockery over dinner, but whom one did not go to help.”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“Injustice is bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility - poverty is bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility - discrimination and inequality are bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time — or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes.”
Source: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Tum daulat ki Kya baat karte ho
Maine gareeb ko aksar pur sukoon dekha hai”
Source: A Study of Personality Characteristics and Values of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Classroom Performance and Students' Likings