Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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

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

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We are all special cases.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

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

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

I love diversity.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

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?

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.