We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Stumbling is not falling.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

The only thing power respects, is power.