I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

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.

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.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

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

I love diversity.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

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 with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

We’re talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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 it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

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

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

All men are equal before fish.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.