Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma GandhiThere will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
Karl LagerfeldBlacks, 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.
Kanye WestI never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Coco ChanelI want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
Angelina JolieWe can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack ObamaThe state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIs there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?
Colin PowellIt was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.
Colin PowellThere is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas SowellJesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
Jimmy CarterNobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice WalkerMan, all lives matter.
Kevin GatesOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
PlatoScience is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas SowellWhat makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
Barack ObamaGirls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
Marilyn MonroeInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MenckenGay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady GagaI have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.
Dolly PartonGovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham LincolnFrom each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl MarxIn 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.
Stephen HawkingI’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Billy GrahamTell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
Pope FrancisWe don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala HarrisEverybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James BaldwinTo deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson MandelaWhen you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.
BonoThe time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
Thomas SowellI hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
Margaret AtwoodAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonI can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice WalkerSo far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonBisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody AllenLike so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.
Michelle ObamaGays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
Joel OsteenCommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham LincolnWe are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
Kurt CobainWe may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.
Maya AngelouYeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
EminemThere is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson MandelaGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. MenckenThe equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel CastroStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonI know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
Muhammad AliBarack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.
Michelle ObamaThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie RobinsonWhere you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.
BonoThey call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack ObamaReproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Ruth Bader GinsburgA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouWhether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Golda MeirThe truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle ObamaI’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.
Narendra ModiI separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Jimmy Carter