You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

The little man is still a man.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

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.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

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.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

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 never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.