It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

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.

There are some loony people in this world!

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world.

More law, less justice.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

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.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.