You cannot legislate an attitude.

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

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

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

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.