Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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

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.

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.

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.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.