You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

A good pickpocket isn’t afraid of intimacy.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

Established in Being, perform action.