Michael Dyson Quotes

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and common services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.

I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking.

I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of material items and monetary wealth than others less fortunate. I believe in sharing, assisting, and just lending a helping hand to people.

All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

I think there needs to be a global focus on people taking care of people.

I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia's most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do.

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.

We do have the power to save one another...

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.