Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

Who taught you to hate yourself?