Quotes About Advocacy

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn't shown towards everyone of our people in this country–it doesn't exist for me.

If something is yours by right, then fight for it or shut up.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.

There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." Largely

I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And

I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

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.

So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called 'integration' with the white man. Now when Mr. Muhammad speaks of 'separation,' the white man calls us 'hate-teachers' and 'fascists'!

So early in life, I learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise

If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading.

Here was a man, who had come from the lower depths which they still inhabited, who had triumphed over his own criminality and his own ignorance to become a forceful leader and spokesman, an uncompromising champion of his people.

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

Silence is the enemy of social change.

Marcus sought by-laws to protect the weak, to make the lot of the slaves less hard, to stand in place of father to the fatherless.

Jesus was deeply affected and concerned about the sufferings and inequities of his day. So much so that he dedicated his entire life to the welfare of others.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

It's better that way, and I am a great proponent of better. In the absence of best.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used. Powerlessness and silence go together.

They say: Speak for us (to whom?) Some say: Avenge us (on whom?) Some say: Take our place. Some say: Witness Others say (and these are women) Be happy for us.