Ram Dass Quotes

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

In America, the old are neglected.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

The elderly of the baby boomer generation will not put up with the traditional discrimination against the elderly. They have the demographic and they have the dollars.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

People are getting older - that is a good thing - but there isn't enough funding in the system. And there's a whole number of injustices.

As you decline in years, you decline in the marketplace.

A lot of subjects blend into the same thing: intolerance. When you're a little kid, you don't know that it's going to get better. Your life experience hasn't told you that. I want to protect those people. I want to send out a message and at least try to get that across.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.

You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.