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.

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

Society is at odds with itself.

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

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

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.

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

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

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

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.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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

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

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

Racism is real in this country.

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.

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.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

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.

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 country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

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

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

No one is pro-abortion.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Freedom is not enough.

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.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I was not an activist.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

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

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

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

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.