You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

The white devil's time is up.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?