Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

My sincerity is my credentials.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

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?