Barbie Ferreira Quotes

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.

Let's work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.

I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of change and progress; that we will rise up and fight for justice and equality; that, ultimately, love will trump hate.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

This is the time to pull together as a Nation, as different people from all over the States with different perspectives and different social statuses and different income brackets, to unify into one and help those on the ground who need our help the most.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.