“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

Learn to see, listen, and think for yourself.

The only way we’ll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world.

My sincerity is my credentials.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time but objective never changes.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.

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.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

But if there’s love, dear – those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

I was quiet but I was not blind.