I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I’ve said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I’m against ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and that we’re going to end this policy.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

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.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

The 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.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

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’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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 know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.

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 just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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.