You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

We are all alike, on the inside.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

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

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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 God is just, I tremble for my country.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.