Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

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.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

All men are equal before fish.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

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

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.