There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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

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

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

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

We are all special cases.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

We boil at different degrees.

I’m an atheist.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Faith never makes a confession.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.