Michael Hastings Quotes

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

We have to see that we're a part of each other, and we have to take care of each other. The reason why they have universal health care in Canada and Britain, these other places? Because they believe if one suffers, everybody suffers.

I want my kids to go and see the world and understand they are privileged, but it doesn't mean they don't have the right to speak up and see what is happening.

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

I remember, when I lived in a refugee camp, it was the people who weren't Somali, the people who came from Western countries, who helped the most. I remember being six and thinking, 'I want to be one of those women,' because I knew how much they helped us.

I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians... everyone is, like, the same.

I believe being a true Global Citizen means you have the willingness and openness to step outside of your own boundaries, and I'm honored to represent that with TUMI.

What I've realized is that the joy of meeting and greeting people from all around the world is universal.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

Please give your life to peace, justice and care.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.

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

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

Travelling as extensively as I do... the take away for me has made me very humble and very sympathetic to other people's plight in the world and very desirous of being proactive in being part of a solution somehow and not part of a problem. It's made me very patient and very grateful for where I live.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.