But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedien….

Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they a….

I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate w….

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a less….

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being..

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker..

Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistine….

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You ….

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the w….

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself..

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her..

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they..

Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against i….

The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and p….

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise..

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the ….

Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom strug….

During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while ….

As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, ….

I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes….

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for our….