Benjamin Hooks famous quotes

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
-- Benjamin Hooks

#Leadership #Thinking #Walks

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
-- Benjamin Hooks

#Civilization #Brain #Made

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.
-- Benjamin Hooks

#Men #Role Models #Black

We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.
-- Benjamin Hooks

#Dog #Justice #President

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
-- Benjamin Hooks

#Country #Government #Done

I must follow them. I am their leader.

A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.