The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

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

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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