I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem.