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.

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

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.

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.

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

You cannot legislate an attitude.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.