Trish Regan Quotes

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Always be capable of feeling … any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.