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.

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

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

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

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.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

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.