“We are non-violent with people who are non-violent with us.”

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.

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.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

You have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.