America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, ’69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it’s worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started – an outright war started in 1962.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don’t have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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

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.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.