“Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 77 of 1106
“The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.”
“Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.”
“How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.”
“I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.”
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
“Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.”
“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”
“You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.”
“The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.”
“Venus favors the bold.”
“We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.”
“The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.”
“To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.”
“I think Robert F. Kennedy really, finally, cared; he realized that all of the rhetoric had to be put down into some form of action. That's perhaps the reason they killed him. They don't care what you say, you can say as much as you want to, provided you don't do anything. If you start to do something and your shuffling raises too much dust, they will disestablish you. That's what happened to Martin Luther King.”
“I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser”
“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.”