A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.