Occupation: Human Rights Activist Birth: May 19, 1925 Death: February 21, 1965
The price of freedom is death..
My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his….
In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure..
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….
Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to ….
This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of M….
I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this….
I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to see that ….
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….
If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get….
Revolutions are never peaceful..
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..
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 ….
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from..
If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How ca….
Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give ….
Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English..
If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, yo….
I am not an American; I am one of twenty-two million black people who are victims of Americanism..
Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some t….
And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundre….