In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes.

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 political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated.