Anne Frank Quotes

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.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

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

I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we've suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.

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

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people of this country. I found no new words. I only have no hope-filled insight to deliver. I only have this warning to all Americans: Whatever this country is willing to do to the least of us, it will one day do to us all.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

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.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

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.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.