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're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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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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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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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

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There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

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

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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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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

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