Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, "Yes." So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'