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 cannot legislate an attitude.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

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.

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.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.