Cheri Bustos Quotes

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact or can open an ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Growing up, my dad was the ultimate person for open-mindedness.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I don't think there's any reason in journalism not to approach stories we cover with humility, empathy, compassion, and intellectual openness. I mean, I think those are just important human traits. I don't think that precludes scrutiny, negativity, where it's appropriate.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them.

I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Be curious enough to keep an open mind to what's happening around you in society. You can look at yourself and the world at the same time.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Our concern is with the loss of tolerance, the absence of compassion and the downgrading of fairness as expressed in this neo-conservative age.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

Literature allows us to be open, to listen, and to be curious.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.