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

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.

Now you know where I got my name.

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

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.