“The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.”

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Everybody shall be accepted no matter what they stand for, you are not always going to agree on their faith.

People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

If not now then when, if not me then who?

Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past.

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.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Everytime the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Though things change, the future’s still inside of me.