The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

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.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

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

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.