I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism.

To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.

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

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done.