Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Alexander HamiltonEvery nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerI try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.
Dolly PartonPeople 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 HartIt 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 AngelouI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper LeeIt is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo MachiavelliGays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.
Joel OsteenI know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!
RihannaGrowing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
Maya AngelouSometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneMoney and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will RogersAs much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.
Clint EastwoodHating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Muhammad AliI think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
Ruth Bader GinsburgNow, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack ObamaYou 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.
Kevin HartI think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel WashingtonLong before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. LewisSometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine HepburnAmong the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham LincolnI have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
Marilyn MonroeAnd 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.
Barack ObamaSometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.
Angelina JolieMany interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘
Colin PowellFor 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.
Desmond TutuMen are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert CamusWe inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
Desmond TutuThe fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Barack ObamaHonestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.
Angelina JolieWe must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMen have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard ShawI get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.
Kevin HartI am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine AlbrightThe world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.
Angelina JolieI don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.
Kevin HartThe Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.
Stephen HawkingWe can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
Thich Nhat HanhThere 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 ObamaThe important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai LamaFor so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.
Michelle ObamaThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAmerica is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAnd so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice WalkerIn 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 ObamaNational character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark TwainIsn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuThere is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
EpicurusIf your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.
Bill GatesWhen the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander HamiltonNobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
Alice WalkerBut men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis BaconStates are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PlatoMy mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.
Jane GoodallOur inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.
Russell M. NelsonIt is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
Stephen HawkingMy parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
Taylor Swift