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.

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

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

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

The people at home will work hard and actually all of them think it was important that we hade the decision that we did make not to compromise; because we didn't have anything to compromise for.