Identity Quotes

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

If I were to try to read,

much less answer,

all the attacks made on me,

this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice,

you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

In any moment of decision,

the best thing you can do is the right thing,

the next best thing is the wrong thing,

and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The struggle of my life created empathy

I could relate to pain,

being abandoned,

having people not love me.

All religions,

arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

If women want any rights more than they’ve got,

why don’t they take them?

When angry, count to four;

when very angry, swear.

Don’t follow the crowd,

let the crowd follow you.

It is the supreme art of the teacher

to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Politics is not about being right or left,

it’s about doing what is right.

Let us sacrifice our today

so that our children can

have a better tomorrow

Vision is not enough;

you must act upon it.

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.

Seek first to understand,

then to be understood.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.

The leader leads,

and the boss drives.

You have to fight for your place in history.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion

can be permanently maintained.

For the last 33 years,

I have looked in the mirror every morning and

asked myself: If today were the last day of my life,

would I want to do what I am about to do today?