“A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.”

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.

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.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.