"Often times I have hated in self-defense;..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.”

“You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.”

“Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”

“Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health”

“There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.”

“Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”

“The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.”