Robert Thurman Expanding your circle of compassion

With your responsible actions, you can show your compassion and you can raise your voice so that the United Nations fulfills its roles towards protecting the rights of children abused in Syria.

So the traditions also insisted and this is an important point, I think that you could not and must not confine your compassion to your own group your own nation, your own co religionists, your own fellow countrymen. You must have what one of the Chinese sages called jian ai concern for everybody. Love your enemies. Honor the stranger.