There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

An index is a great leveller.

Freedom is not enough.

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.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

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.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

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.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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

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.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

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

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

So what we’re talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we’re facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

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

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

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.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

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

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Due process should matter.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

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