Education is the passport

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

They put your mind right in a bag, and take it wherever they want.

A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.