You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

Let's cool it, brothers.

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.