If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation...
