Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
J. K. RowlingIt is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Racism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisEveryone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.
Tom BradyOne of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Stephen CoveyFunny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
Dolly PartonWell I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.
Madeleine AlbrightI am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt DisneyWhen I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
Ruth Bader GinsburgTo be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BonoPeople don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.
Kevin HartThere’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘
Jerry SeinfeldIf we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. KennedyThe polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
Noam ChomskyPerception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.
John KennedyThere 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.
Barack ObamaIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack ObamaThe only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James BaldwinLater on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis PresleyJustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise PascalWe don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Joe BidenThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. RooseveltI have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.
BonoReproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanIt is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya AngelouAt the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy CarterThe shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl JungFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinI really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
Vivienne WestwoodI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoPeople with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPakistan is not a unified country.
Noam ChomskyThe essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma GandhiThe poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da VinciIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainIf I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
Bad BunnyWe have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
Bill Gates‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
Kevin HartAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
Jackie ChanI 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 OsteenHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouTo the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
Mr. TI feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndAs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya AngelouFor most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
Christopher HitchensYou know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.
Alice WalkerIf 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 ChomskyWe all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne FrankTo deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson MandelaBachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
H. L. MenckenWe must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Pope FrancisThe people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas SowellI’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
Lady GagaFootball fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. ThompsonWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaMusic is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady Gaga