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.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

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.

We’ve never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

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.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

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

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

To be social is to be forgiving.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Pakistan is not a unified country.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.