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"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
"People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?"
"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."
"Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others."
"You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours."
"The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet."
"Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand."
"People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed."
"It's cool when people know you more, but I like people to treat me regular when they see me. I take pictures. I don't really be big on people looking at me."
"My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn’t advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That’s all that I can say. ‘If I fall....’ - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall."
"There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong."
"Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything."
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers."
"People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made"
"One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people."
"I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do."
"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends."
"I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health."
"Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress."
"I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'"
