Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil.

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.

Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.

Pete's a good guy.""He just slept with my mother!""I didn't say he was perfect.

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

The spiritual world is connected with the physical world. The common factor connecting all things is true love.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.