I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment

The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within the law.

Just the existence of a single mentally challenged or mentally ill person should make us change any of our theories about the necessity of some kind of correct thinking as the definition of "salvation." Yet we have a history of excluding and torturing people who do not "think" right.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.