A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. |
Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars -- caged. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons, but there shouldn't be bars. Behind bars, a man never reforms. |
Anytime you see someone more successful than you are,they are doing something you're not. |
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. |
By any means necessary. |
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. |
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today |
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. |
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence |
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion. |
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. |
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. |
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment. |
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence |
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. |