Talib Kweli Quotes

The more the power of men and women increases, the greater is their responsibility as individuals and as members of the community.

My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

If you believe your product or service can fulfill a true need, it's your moral obligation to sell it.

THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

Life is moral responsibility.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

The true source of rights is duty.

Happiness is a moral obligation

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.