If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.