Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

The price of freedom is death.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor.