My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I love diversity.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

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.‘

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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.

We boil at different degrees.