Marsha P. Johnson Quotes

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

We must not only preach the doctrine of human rights, we must learn how actually to be our brother’s keeper.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

If we don't take care of each other, who will? ... I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something.'

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.

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's load.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

As a culture, we're so worried about what's going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

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

I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth