They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

I don't know - too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within - and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites.

Revolutions are never peaceful.