What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.

Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it.

Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

I live like a man who's dead already! I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything