Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

If you give, you will be blessed.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I am the freest author in the world.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.