We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
Bill GatesOur strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.
Madeleine AlbrightI’ve been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
Barack ObamaI would not like to be the only woman on the court.
Ruth Bader GinsburgUntil the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard ShawWe can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouSome of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.
Noam ChomskyThere is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack ObamaI’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.
Michelle ObamaUnemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesFight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader GinsburgBlack Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
Huey NewtonI’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‚You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.‘
Maya AngelouWe have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
Bill GatesI think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘
Jane GoodallSometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
Ariana GrandeTo deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson MandelaTo like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
E. E. CummingsReproductive 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
George H. W. BushThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine AlbrightBecause we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
Anne FrankBlacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
Kanye WestHong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Anthony BourdainAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Edmund BurkeInjustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.
Jimmy CarterIt 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If you want to appeal to everyone, you can’t do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date – when you’re in Australia, when you’re in Dubai, when you’re in Indonesia.
Kevin HartI never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.
Maya AngelouFor way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.
Greta ThunbergIf I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
George Bernard ShawWe must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy CarterNothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas JeffersonHonestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.
Angelina JolieEverybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will RogersTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Mark TwainI 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.
Alice WalkerI am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
Angelina JolieI hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
Kanye WestWhat I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Marilyn MonroeI will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
Narendra ModiThe crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.
Noam ChomskyI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson MandelaYou 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.
Kevin HartIn my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.
Alice WalkerThe world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Bill GatesTo be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BonoWhen I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
Jimmy CarterI 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.
Jimmy CarterWhen you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
George CarlinTo 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.
Mahatma GandhiOn the other hand, you have different fingers.
Steven WrightI don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.
Tom BradyAmerica is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanIt is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel JohnsonIf an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David ThoreauYou’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
BonoI’m going to try to unite all Americans.
Barack Obama