Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate.
There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being – neither white, black, brown, or red.
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived.
For one to control one’s thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one’s atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.
Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that’s racist.
Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that’s my reward.
As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.
I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don’t make any opening for some fool to step into.
One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.
Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn’t enforce its own laws because the color of a man’s skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can’t give them justice.
Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
Don’t you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who’s depriving you of your rights. They’re not your friends, no, they’re your enemies. Treat them like that.
I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God.
Any time you know you’re within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don’t die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he’s lost the battle.
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I’ll get nonviolent. But don’t teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent.
Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.