Quotes on People

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.

When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.