An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan

Now you know where I got my name.

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.