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.

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

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.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

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

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.