When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Racism is real in this country.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

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.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.