
Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order".

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.
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[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.