Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

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

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.

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.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

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.

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