“Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.”
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“Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern.”
“You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.”
“Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.”
“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”
“This government has failed the Negro. This so-called democracy has failed the Negro.”
“Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined.”
“The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits.”
“As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks it up like a sponge and expands.”
“Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.”
“Publishing was easy for me, and I at once found favor and understanding.”
“The historical Jesus will be to our time a stranger and an enigma.”
“Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”
“It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.”