If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective.