You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean..

If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot..

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I ha….

Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the….

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the crimin….

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a d….

That's not a chip on my shoulder, that's your foot on my neck..

How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was….

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution..

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, ….

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for ….

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist..

Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroe….

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true..

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the America….

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research..

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!.

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black….

I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem..

I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed a….

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in trea….