Mr. Arad, who started designing a memorial before there was even a competition, was invested from the start in making what he called a "stoic, defiant and compassionate" statement.
And as Francis demonstrated earlier this month in his surprisingly compassionate statement about abortion — an acknowledgment of "the agonizing and painful" decisions involved in a woman's choice — his starting point is affirmation, not condemnation.
His compassionate statement on illegal immigrants — "It's an act of love" — got headlines this month.
This compassionate statement in the context of Jesus accepting his fate, can be interpreted as: "Forgive them Father for they know not that this has to be; they may think they are responsible but my death is inevitable as part of your [God's] plan".
But until then the compassionate statements from good Americans like Mr. Moore who fight hate daily is a strong unifying factor we have.
It is a compassionate and coherent statement about helping Americans to understand their choices.
Some of them were ones I'd written, and some were covers of songs that people wouldn't normally think of [00 10 00] as political, but have become political in this time, where it feels like, just kind of being like a compassionate person is a political statement in its own weird way.
The White House plan to eliminate DACA puts Republicans in the House and Senate in a bind, forcing them to either act to stop sweeping deportations or renege on public statements promising a compassionate approach to Dreamers.
He was a compassionate songwriter and a gentleman with lots of style". The statement ended saying "T-birds and Bentleys".
"FEMA's emergency sheltering initiative was conceived as a compassionate but short-term solution to shelter evacuees," Walker said in a written statement.
Others find it helpful to talk back to their internal negative statements by either disagreeing in a strong way or reacting in a compassionate, softer way.
