Howard Dean Quotes

I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia's most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

We are the world.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not be allowed to suffer and die untended.

I've always been passionate about human rights in general. I think anyone who knows me can attest to that.

From natural disasters to the refugee crises, the impact we can have as individuals might seem limited. But as many of our hosts know, sharing your home for even a few nights can make a tremendous difference in someone's life.

I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can't sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don't go on the roads, till we don't become one of them.

Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

We need to really start taking care of each other and not profiting off of each other's miseries. That shouldn't be our reality. That shouldn't be what we aspire to. It's not admirable in any way, shape, or form.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.