Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

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

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

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

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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.

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

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

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 Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

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.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

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.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.