All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. 

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertion, we shall be able to preserve with your own strength.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.