Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.