 I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. |
| There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. |
| The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. |
| The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. |
| You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. |
| Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. |
| If you stop struggling, then you stop life. |
| We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. |
| I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. |
| Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. |
| 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. |
| The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. |
| There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. |
| My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. |
| The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. |
| I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. |
