Injustice in the end produces independence.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

God helps those who help themselves.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I was raised to be independent.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.