“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

You can’t have capitalism without racism.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.

How can you thank a man for giving you what’s already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

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.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

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.

Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.

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.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.

We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.

In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.