Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

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

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.

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

As the Trump administration takes office - and we see acts of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination around the country - ask yourself, 'What's important to me? What do I care about? What have I benefitted from that I want to pay forward?' Then look for ways to spread help and hope.

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 have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

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.

If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Reject hatred without hating.

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

I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Oppress not a hired servant ... whether he be of thy brethren or of thy strangers in the land.