I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...

A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world

Secret of success is something that will outlast in the life of human being.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

Life is too short for a half-rack.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end.