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.

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

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 say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

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.

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

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