George & Amal Clooney: Eyes only for each other, hearts for the world

They have eyes only for each other - he twirls her long, dark hair while she's talking and looks mesmerized as she does. She's adoring of him and though almost his height in her heels, she obviously looks up to him like she would the Eiffel Tower on a moonless night.

- JOANNE RAE M. RAMIREZ

And yet Hollywood A-lister George Clooney, and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney, have hearts that bleed for the world.

At the Social Good Summit organized by news online platform Rappler at the Lanson Hotel last Sunday, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa asked why they do what they do.

George took to the mic first for this question.

"I would be ashamed to look my children in the eye if we didn't stand for the things we believe in. Even when it's difficult. And if that makes things difficult at times, things get difficult at times...I'm not at risk of going to jail that I know of. Maybe after today I probably am. Amal and I talk about this a lot. We would be ashamed if we at any point didn't take on the things that we believe in because we were afraid. My father (journalist Nick Clooney) always said, 'I don't care what you do in life. Just defend people with less power than you and challenge people with more power than you.' And that's it," said the Hollywood star, whose accolades include two Academy awards (one for best supporting actor in Syriana, and another for co-producing Argo)

Amal, looking both stunning and purposeful in a red knit ensemble, added, "We imagine our kids learning about what's happening in the world and asking us later, what did you do when journalists were being put in prison? What did you do when women were being bought and sold and had their bodies used as battlefield? What did you do when minorities were being mistreated, and you could (do something)?