“If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”

Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

How can anyone be against love?

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people.

You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

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.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

I don’t wanna die too young.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

I’m coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don’t want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Talent is never static. It’s always growing or dying.