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

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

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

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

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.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

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.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.