The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.

A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool.

In my darkness time, God splendour light shines my path.

To find the true cause of how you think and feel, find the 'sponsoring thought' that created the interpretation that created your experience of life.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

When I look at what Donald trump have proposed, you have what is called now the Trump loophole, because it would so advantage you and the business you do.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.

Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say. (on playing for Liverpool again)