“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.”

Mankind’s history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

Stumbling is not falling.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

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?

Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Successful people speak words of inclusion rather than words of separation, words of acceptance rather than words of rejection, and words of tolerance rather than words of prejudice.

Control is not real, and I’m really understanding that every day. It’s about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

Desperately yearning to accept its all as it should be.

Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.

When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate. When setting expectations, no matter what has been said or written, if substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable.

Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.

Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?