When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in the white man's house, begging the white man for a job, for food, clothing and shelter. And then after the white man provides him with all of these things, he turns around and get - has the nerve to get angry at the white man when the white man tries to control his life.
Actually I feel sorry for the bully because they probably don't have love and support at home.
There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U. S. Thierry Henry, for example.
The greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.