Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

All men are equal before fish.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

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

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

I love diversity.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

I was not an activist.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

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

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Society is at odds with itself.

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.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

And every human being is precious.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.