"Power doesn't back up in the face..." - Quote by Malcolm X

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.”

“You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.”

“There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”

“Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.”

“Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”

“Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.”

“What you resist persist.”

“The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.”