You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.