Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.