If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

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.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

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.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I love diversity.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

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

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘