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.

You can Jail a Revolutionary but you can't jail the Revolution. You can run a freedom fighter around the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country. You can murder a liberator, but you can't murder liberation.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

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

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

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.