The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat. Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.

What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.