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

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

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.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Let’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

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

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

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

The white man is destroying the world.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

No one is pro-abortion.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

I’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

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

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

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

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

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

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.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The U.S. military was segregated ‚til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

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.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.