"The civility of no race can be..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If the race is good, so is the place.”

“Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.”

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

“But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.”

“There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.”

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

“The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.”

“People say law but they mean wealth.”

“People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.”