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

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

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.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

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

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.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Every loss of life is terrible.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

The white man is destroying the world.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.