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.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
We all like chicken.
We didn’t land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us”.
I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.-because you can hardly mention anything I am not curious about.
Do Your Best Work.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
My feeling about in-laws was that they were outlaws.
I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who is for or against it.
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiosity.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
How can you thank a man for giving you what’s yours?
Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you’ll never know where you’ll get an idea from.
One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
That’s not a chip on my shoulder, that’s your foot on my neck.
If the ballot doesn’t work, we’ll try something else. But let us try the ballot.