Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

An index is a great leveller.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.