Compassion

did-you-kno:

“I knew what it was like to be hurt,” she said. “The many times that that happened, I wish someone would have stood up for me.”

“But violence is violence – nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea.”

“For the most part, people who hurt… they come from hurt. It is a cycle. Let’s say they had killed him or hurt him really bad. How does [his] son feel? Does he carry on the violence?”

At the time, she was 18 years old.

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The way to eliminate hate is to stop teaching hate. And the first lesson is compassion.

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