I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

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.

I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.'

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.