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I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.
The decision which we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded an unjust customs we owe our ultimate allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society.
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh.
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
In a situation where a lifelong school break was being imposed upon us by the terrorists, rising up against that became very important, essential.
We must speak up for the children of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan who are suffering from terrorism, poverty, child labour and child trafficking. Let us help them through our voice, action and chari...
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.
I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards me...
The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea around us.
Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step.
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fie...
We are doing this because, no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying. Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity.”
I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white...
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
We shall unite. We have learned the meaning of Unity.
I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory over everything, de sun came like gold trou de trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.
While a private individual may be bound only by the formal vows that he makes, those who govern should be wholly bound by the truth in thought, word and deed.
We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consi...
There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, ...
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success o...