Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

When I look at what's happening with #MeToo, my heart breaks, basically, for everybody involved.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

spent much of the next two years cowriting and editing her biography.  Emerson was a signatory of the "Declaration of Sentiments" of the first Women's Rights Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. And in 1855, he attended and addressed the convention in Boston.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That

I refer to the cross of Christ. The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt - self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, comfort over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

Doing and saying the right thing are not sufficient. Doing the right thing IN THE RIGHT WAY and with the person's comfort in mind is critical.

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.

The redeemed heart says, "The reason by which we live is the heart of mercy that does not keep a ledger.