You cannot legislate an attitude.

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.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

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

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

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!