Accepting Quote by Elijah Muhammad

A good name is better than bags of gold.

— Miguel de Cervantes

The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought…

— Malcolm X

Gold will be slave or master.

— Horace

My dear readers answer a good name for a good name is better than silver nor gold and it determines wht u gonna be…

— Akamnonu Daniel

I was named after a Muslim.

— Jabari Parker

Be your money's master, not its slave.

— Publilius Syrus

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

— Malcolm X

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

— Plautus

A good name is what is given you by others and that which has been earned by you.

— Jack Hyles

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with…

— Ezra Taft Benson

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down…

— Zeno of Citium