You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.