If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.

History is not hatred.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.