We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.