When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

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

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.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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

Sexism is real in this country.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

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

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Society is at odds with itself.