Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.