Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself.

I think that the best thing that a person can be is sincere.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.