"If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy."

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever."

"War settles nothing."

"A life well-lived leaves an aroma of kindness long after the sun has set. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."

"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."