The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

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.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.