Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

[At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better.