So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

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

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.

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

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

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.

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

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.