A. E. Housman Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Always be capable of feeling … any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

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

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

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

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.

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

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

It is the duty of every human to fight for the freedom of others, We have to continue to struggle for each other.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.