Women should be obscene and not heard.

God helps those who help themselves.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Only the educated are free.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

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

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

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.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

If I were a woman, I’d simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I’d got the vote.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.