No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

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

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.