Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth!.
The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the ….
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weigh….
When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they conside….
I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach….
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals..
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola an….
You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear ….
Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his pro….
We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods..
Revolutions are never peaceful..
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more..
If you have an all-white neighborhood you don't call it a segregated neighborhood. But you call an all-black neighborhood a segregated neighborhood. ….
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from..
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take ….
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure..
Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick..
Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English..
It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Af….
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism..
Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations….