Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

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

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.