Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.