I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.