We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

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.

God wants the church to become the initiator of the reformation and changes in the society

When wealth is lost nothing is lost When health is lost something is lost When character is lost all is lost!

It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded...again.

With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

I'd find the fellow who lost it [million dollars], and, if he was poor, I'd return it.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.