In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

You look at a clock and it tells you it's eight o'clock, you know the number of hours that has been before eight; you know the number of hours you've got after eight. You can now measure your time to see if you can get done a number of things you've got to get done. History serves the same purpose.

Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.