Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

The best form of saying is being

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

People talk about generating my own work, but I don't really know how to go about that. There are certainly some roles in the theater I'd like to play but I don't know if I'll ever get to do it.

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

What are truck rental companes and fertilizer salesman goign to do in response to the OK city bombing?