Caroline Lucas Quotes

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.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Acting and philanthropy are braided together. I've tried to seek out things that speak not just specifically to the community that created me, but that speak in a way that's universal and all of humanity celebrates.

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I was raised that you have to speak out and look out for your fellow man, woman, and child.

Hillary Clinton has made it clear over and over again that we are at our best when we lift people up; we should be leaving no one behind. That is not always her home base, but it's always part of what she says.

If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

I have no doubt in my mind that the new generation has a sense of unity and sensitivity that previous generations lacked. We are strong, and we are visionaries beyond just money.

In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

I can't speak for the rest, but I think the little India all of us carry in our hearts should be good enough for us individually to take a step to help ensure that same freedom and justice that our constitution guarantees is given to all.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.

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

I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

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

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

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