Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and engagement of all.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.