The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

Give light, and people will find the way...

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

It wasn’t every day a girl lost her virginity, not to mention to a delicious, perfect specimen of man. One who had wings, to boot.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

Whatever thing a man sets his heart on...is his god; and if his god doesn't also happen to be the true and living God of Israel that man is laboring in idolatry.