If we are not free, no one will respect us.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I have the space and liberty to create.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

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.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Every summer’s mine.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.