Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.