If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.

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

They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery.

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.