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

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

We 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.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

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

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

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.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

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

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

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

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I 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.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

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.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.