I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Racism is real in this country.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

The white man is destroying the world.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I was not an activist.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

All movements go too far.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

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.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.