Activist Quotes

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

Our only hope is to control the vote.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

It's wrong to kill.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

I'm for prayer in schools.

I'm for economic independence.

I'm against abortion.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.