Four legs good, two legs bad.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

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

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

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

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

The little man is still a man.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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!

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

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.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‚President Can’t Swim.‘

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

If 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.

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

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I’ve been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it’s ending ‚don’t ask, don’t tell,‘ making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

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.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

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

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 a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

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.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.