Sheila Jackson Lee Quotes

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

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.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.

We do have a moral responsibility to reach out to our neighbors in need.

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

What Americans do is we come to each other's aid.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

The idea of service leads to community.

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

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.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

Service is what life is all about.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.