It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.

Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!