See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave..

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty..

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which on….

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage..

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'….

You cannot legislate an attitude..

I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violen….

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organ….

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty..

I consider myself neither legally nor morally bound to obey the laws made by a body in which I have no representation..

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed….

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither….

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class..

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His f….

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the sta….

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress ag….

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in..

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant..

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie..

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country..