They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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 may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

The 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.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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

Racism is real in this country.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

It is right to give every man his due.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.