That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.