See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

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

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.

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

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

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.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.