There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will. ' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.
The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.