Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

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.

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

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

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