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 has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

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

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.

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

You cannot legislate an attitude.

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!