We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

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

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

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.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

I’m not looking to exclude people, I’m looking to include them.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

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

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

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.

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.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.