The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

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.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

...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.

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

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

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.