We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.