This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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.

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