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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 mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that something's wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn't bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.


I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.


The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.


I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.


Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.


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.


I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.


We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.


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


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


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


The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.


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


If you stop struggling, then you stop life.


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


There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.


The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.


I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.