Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.19461947Copy Quote
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.18901891Copy Quote
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.17771778Copy Quote
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters—Plymouth Rock landed on us.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.13921393Copy Quote
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.12921293Copy Quote
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.12791280Copy Quote
When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.12401241Copy Quote
When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.
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When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. When you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. When you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. When you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. And that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. So, it's a very vicious cycle.11211122Copy Quote
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.10251026Copy Quote
If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.929930Copy Quote
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.838839Copy Quote
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.758759Copy Quote
The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.687688Copy Quote
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.668669Copy Quote
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.522523Copy Quote
You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step479480Copy Quote
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?453454Copy Quote
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.444445Copy Quote
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.442443Copy Quote
You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth436437Copy Quote
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.429430Copy Quote
As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.424425Copy Quote
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