The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it.

Keep Calm and Bend Over

A man on a mission would bring his heaviest artillery, and it looked like this guy hadn’t even packed a pocket knife.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The most fundamental seems fickle.

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.