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.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

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

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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.

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

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.