Stephen Sondheim Quotes

As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.

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

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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 cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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

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

We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart

In a place of pain, there is space for everyone.

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

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

It doesn't matter where we're from, we all have to stick together and help each other out as performers and as human beings.

It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

I talk about a lot of issues I go through and some of my fans go through and try to create a fellowship where people can relate to each other.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.