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.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

The 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.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Yeah, 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.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

All men are equal before fish.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

An index is a great leveller.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.