Barack Obama Quotes about Empathy

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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Barack Obama

Character, Empathy, Quality

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

Barack Obama

Compassion, Goal, Empathy

But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.

Barack Obama

Ideas, People, Empathy

"Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul". Speech in a Town Hall, Istanbul, Turkey, www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together.

Barack Obama

Dream, Imagination, Empathy

Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

Barack Obama

Powerful, Heart, Empathy

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

Let us join together across denominations, religions and cultures to make a habit of empathy and reach out to those most in need. To share the blessings we enjoy and to advance the cause of peace in all corners of our world.

Barack Obama

Blessing, Our World, Empathy

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

Barack Obama

Empathy, Contracts, Concern

Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

Barack Obama

Shoes, People, Empathy

The world doesn't just revolve around you. There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit.

Barack Obama

Country, Thinking, Empathy