I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

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. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.