I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayGet up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
Bob MarleyAll the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PlatoThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensTo say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Pope FrancisThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. RooseveltAbove all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.
Che GuevaraYou cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles SpurgeonThe difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. MenckenIf I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Jackie RobinsonLawless are they that make their wills their law.
William ShakespeareI think God’s justice is making wrongs right.
Joel OsteenThe polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
Noam ChomskyBlack people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ‚cause it’s life or death for real.
Nipsey HussleIt is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
Helen KellerWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliIf people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinI was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.
Edmund HillaryWe reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King’s success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.
Jimmy CarterAll human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeA return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo MachiavelliSeven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.
Terry PratchettI will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
Vivienne WestwoodOur generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret AtwoodTo assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert CamusAll that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Albert CamusHatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhen I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.
Alice WalkerThere’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie RobinsonIf 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.
Pope FrancisI think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareI liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Kanye WestTo go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
PlatoI think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
Katharine HepburnFor some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
Dolly PartonI have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence NightingaleIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauThe poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Abraham LincolnThere is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund BurkeThose who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Desmond TutuHonor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MenckenIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor DostoevskyWith the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard BransonAll the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
Desmond TutuEthics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert SchweitzerToday, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
Jackie RobinsonWe’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.
John KennedyThe protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
Bill GatesAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas SowellMorality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. MenckenI know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
Muhammad AliIf it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus AureliusCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal