There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

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

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

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

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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 blaspheme what they do not know.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

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

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.