I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Racism is real in this country.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Society is at odds with itself.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

I was not an activist.

Sexism is real in this country.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?