Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‚topics‘ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing.

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.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

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.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

I 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.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

More law, less justice.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I feel Anglo-American.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.