“Stumbling is not falling.” – Malcolm X

“Speaking like this doesn’t mean that we’re anti-white, but it does mean we’re anti-exploitation, we’re anti-degradation, we’re anti-oppression.”

“We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.”

“Yes, I’m an extremist. The black race… is in extremely bad condition. You show me a black man who isn’t an extremist and I’ll show you one who needs psychiatric attention!”

“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species — it is the tigress and lioness in you — which tends to defend when attacked.”

“If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.”

“One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you–suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I’ll have a go, too.”

“Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists’ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.”

“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

“Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

“To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.”

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

“People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”

“If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.”

“I wasn’t lucky. I deserved it.”

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.”

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”

“For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.”

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.”

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

“I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.”

“Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.”