The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.

...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.

I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.