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

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Religion is just mind control.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

I love diversity.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Honolulu is a melting pot.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

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.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.