Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us"..
My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ush….
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to inte….
If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or….
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's ….
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash betwee….
America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like..
I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brut….
You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that ….
There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we w….
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we a….
Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world..
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people a….
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American….
[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior..
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devi….
I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die..
I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether….
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but di….
Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into dis….
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Fo….