Don't let anybody take your manhood.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men. And so Christ's words from the cross are written in sharp-edged terms across some of the most inexpressible tragedies of history: 'They know not what they do'.