Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

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

The main part of the tree is the root, and the root is always beneath the ground. It never is brought out into the light.

Give us some separate territory in this country where our people can go and do something for ourselves. And provide us with everything that we need to keep that new territory going, until we are self-sufficient.

By any means necessary.