If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

I was not an activist.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

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

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

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.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

It’s a facet of the gay rights movement that people don’t think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn’t until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana’s ‚head and master rule,‘ that the husband was head and master of the house.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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