Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

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I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

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

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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

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I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

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