The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James BaldwinFeeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del ReyThere’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel OsteenInstead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.
Pope FrancisJudgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne DyerVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusWe are all special cases.
Albert CamusA teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel JohnsonIn today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Kanye WestInstead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David ThoreauThe immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack ObamaApple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.
Bad BunnyAs much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.
Nipsey HussleNo grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAnybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader GinsburgHaving a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Wayne DyerNo culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma GandhiI’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
Greta ThunbergMy mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.
Jane GoodallIf you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.
Lou HoltzI am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas JeffersonIf 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.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.
Joel OsteenSurplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew CarnegieI want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother TeresaA man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
James MadisonIf you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
Clint EastwoodIf all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinI suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?
Douglas MacArthurI still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
Christopher HitchensWhen 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.
Kendrick LamarI know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.
Joe BidenThe Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
Noam ChomskyIf liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellToday, writers want to impress other writers.
Paulo CoelhoAn association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas JeffersonThe philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.
Brian EnoI’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.
Cristiano RonaldoI want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.
Stephen CurryRacial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
Billy GrahamMy experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle ObamaIf you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
Bob MarleyThe time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
Thomas SowellAs individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve JobsAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawI am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine AlbrightIn business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.
Robert KiyosakiGood psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Abraham MaslowBeing beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.
Lady GagaMy real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.
J. ColeThe answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.
Richard M. NixonI had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint EastwoodI have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee WilliamsIf 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.
Noam ChomskyIn order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert EinsteinI believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.
Joel OsteenNo idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston ChurchillThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung