Wisdom Quotes

"I believe that each person is responsible for their own actions."

"I never backed down from my principles."

"I believe in the inherent dignity of all human beings."

"The worst crime the white man has committed is to teach us to hate ourselves."

"The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian America has been robbed of his identity."

"We are not anti-white. We are pro-black."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer; he poses the right question."

"The game is up for the white man. He knows it. I know it. And most of you know it."

"Life is like a game of chess; you must think several moves ahead."

"I have reached the point where I believe that women should dare to do what they believe is right."

"Every law that restricts half the population is a law that diminishes us all."

"Our enemies say we are aggressive; we say we are awake."

"Silence sometimes speaks volumes that words cannot express."

"To understand others, we must first understand ourselves."

"The mind is our greatest battlefield and our greatest fortress."

"We are shaped by our choices more than by our circumstances."

"We must learn from our mistakes or be condemned to repeat them."

"The strength of character comes from knowing what is right and doing it."

"Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development."

"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."

"The test of a civilization is the way it treats its women."

"The greatest obstacle to women's freedom is not men, but women's own acceptance of inferiority."

"Failure is not something to fear but something to learn from and overcome."

"The day women are valued for their minds rather than their appearance will be a great day for humanity."

"The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment and detail between all elements of the nation."

"The chief problem in any community cursed with race prejudice is to see soul-deep into the souls of black folk."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"I would not have you blame any one people for the complexities of history."

"To progress, we must understand our past and learn from it."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its women."