Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

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.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

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.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

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.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

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

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

I feel Anglo-American.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.