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

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

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.