John Legend Quotes

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

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

We should remember the poor.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better?

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

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

Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and common services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess

A change of mentality is needed, no longer seeing the poor as a burden, or as intruders trying to profit from others, but as people seeking to share the goods of the world so that we can create a just and prosperous world for all.

We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.