Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

The white man is destroying the world.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

No one is pro-abortion.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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

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

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.