So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

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

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

Society is at odds with itself.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

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

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

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

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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.

Freedom is not enough.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

I was not an activist.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grapped.

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

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

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

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

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?