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- Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability. — Sandra Day O'Connor
- I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. — Charles Schumer
- There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
- He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. — Abraham Joshua Heschel