"My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being."

"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."

"I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough."

"Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin."

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another"

"Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink."

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

“The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much, because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.”

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

“Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.”

“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”

“When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.”

“It’s hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent.”

“I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.”

“Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they’ve always made me glad.”

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.”

“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”

“They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.”

“The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.”

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”

“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”