How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.