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

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The little man is still a man.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

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 think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Homophobia is real in this country.

I love diversity.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

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?

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.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter – and to write it in the books of law.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

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.

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

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

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 rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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

Man, all lives matter.

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

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

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

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

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.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

And every human being is precious.

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.