If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude.

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.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

Even in death, her mother was winning.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

The reason families need two incomes today is not to support themselves but to support the government.

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

Do I know what rhetorical means?

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.

I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.