To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

What is nobler, " she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

It seems like the millennial generation is a little bit of a cultural punching bag.

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

If God is God, we cant be afraid of what we can learn.

History is more interesting than politics.

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?