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.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I love diversity.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Freedom is not enough.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

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

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Revolutions go not backward.

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

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

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

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Africa is on the rise.

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.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

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?

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.