Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

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.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

The problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership

If you can trust God and yourself, anything is possible.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.