No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

I think that Jesus-dependency has taken over our minds, and too many of our institutions.